Architecture and Fire : : a psychoanalytic approach to conservation / / Stamatis Zografos.

• VerfasserIn: Zografos, Stamatis,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2019.; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 193 pages)

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

Table of Contents

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.