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dc.contributor.authorZografos, Stamatis
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-24 20:03:37
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:17:24Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:17:24Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1005101
dc.identifierOCN: 1126171553en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25000
dc.description.abstractArchitecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire. Stamatis Zografos expands on the general agreement among many theorists that the primitive hut was erected around fire – locating fire as the first memory of architecture, at the very beginning of architectural evolution. Following the introduction, Zografos analyses the archive and the renewed interest in the study of archives through the psychoanalysis of Jacques Derrida. He moves on to explore the ambivalent nature of fire, employing the conflicting philosophies of Gaston Bachelard and Henri Bergson to do so, before discussing architectural conservation and the relationship between listed buildings, the function of archives, and the preservation of memories from the past. The following chapter investigates how architecture evolves by absorbing and accommodating fire, while the penultimate chapter examines the critical moment of architectural evolution: the destruction of buildings by fire, with a focus on the tragic disaster at London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017. Zografos concludes with thoughts on Freud’s drive theory. He argues the practice of architectural conservation is an expression of the life drive and a simultaneous repression of the death drive, which suggests controlled destruction should be an integral part of the conservation agenda.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architectureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building::TNK Building construction and materials::TNKX Conservation of buildings and building materialsen_US
dc.subject.otherarchitecture
dc.subject.otherfire
dc.subject.otherpsychoanalysis
dc.subject.otherFreud
dc.titleArchitecture and Fire
dc.title.alternativeA Psychoanalytic Approach to Conservation
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/111.9781787353701
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydf73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2
oapen.relation.isbn9781787353725
oapen.relation.isbn9781787353718
oapen.relation.isbn9781787353732
oapen.relation.isbn9781787353749
oapen.relation.isbn9781787353756
oapen.pages208
oapen.place.publicationLondon
oapen.identifier.ocn1126171553


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