Fire and Memory by Guillén Fernández; Gina Cariño (Translator); Luis Fernández-GalianoCall Number: Architecture Library (UES) NA2542.3 .F4713 2000
ISBN: 0262561336
Publication Date: 2000-12-22
In Fire and Memory, Luis Fernández-Galiano reconstructs the movement from cold towarm architecture, from building fire to building a building with and for fire, through what hecalls a "metaphorical plundering" of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and economics, and inparticular of ecology and thermodynamics. Beginning with the mythical fire in the origins ofarchitecture and moving to its symbolic representation in the twentieth century, Galiano develops atheoretical dialogue between combustion and construction that ranges from Vitruvius to Le Corbusier,from the mechanical and organic to time and entropy. Galiano points out that energy, so important tothe origin of architectural theory in Vitruvius's time, has been absent from architectural theorysince the introduction of the "dictatorship of the eye" over that of the skin. With Fire and Memory,he reintroduces energy to the discussion of architecture and reminds us that the sense of touch isas necessary to an understanding of the environment as the sense of sight.