| #2148588 in Books | 2014-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.75 x6.75 x1.00l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||About the Author|Josep Lluis Mateo is architect since 1974; PhD (cum laude) since 1994 at the UPC-Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, and Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich. His work has been extensively published and exhibited, most recently a
Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building’s experiential reality during construction, one ought to keep in mind their brute powers – earth’s crushing heaviness, the erratic character of water, air’s thermo-dynamic cataclysms, or the dangerous benignity of fire. Affective in a direct way, they act as guiding principles in the process of realization: While the earth targets the foundat...
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