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Architecture and fire : a psychoanalytic approach to conservation /

Architecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zografos, Stamatis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. On Archives; The Derridian archive; The Freudian death drive; Archives and the city; Archives, historiography and monumentality; Digital and dynamic archives; Individual memory: An archival reading; Collective and cultural memory: An archival reading; 3. On Fire; The methodology of fire: Bachelard's model of knowledge production; Vernant's interpretation of the Promethean myth; Heraclitus' cosmology, fire and conflict; What is fire?; Fire in mythology; Fire in festivities
  • Fire in modern scienceEntropy and thermodynamics; The archive of fire; 4. On Architectural Conservation; The designation process; Changes to buildings; Towards the establishment of a modern conservation theory; Viollet-Le-Duc and the restoration movement; Restoration in Britain; John Ruskin's conservation movement; Conservation today; Bachelard's notion of time and memory in the Englishheritage protection system; The Bergsonian archive and the need to reassess the listing process; 5. Architecture and Fire; Fire and thermal comfort; Philippe Rahm's Digestible Gulf Stream
  • Tahe hearth of the early houseHistory of matches; The emergence of the central heating system; Fire and modernism; Fire and sustainable architecture; Architecture and thermodynamics; Architecture and excess of energy; Memory, materials and the evolution of technology; Typologies and memory; Architectural evolution and fire: A Bachelardian approach; Architectural evolution and fire: A Bergsonian approach; 6. Architecture on Fire; Fire-fighting bodies; Fire-fighting equipment; Fire-fighting and the city; Fire protection and the building; The Grenfell Tower disaster
  • Fire and building regulationsBuilding regulations and creativity; Research on fire prevention; Architecture on fire: A Bachelardian approach; Architecture on Fire: A Bergsonian approach; 7. Conclusion; A Psychoanalytic Approach to Conservation; Bibliography; Index