British Fire Engine Heritage
Title | British Fire Engine Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Pennington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fire engines |
ISBN | 9780753700129 |
Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades
Title | Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Frederic T. Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | Fire engines |
ISBN |
Architecture and Fire
Title | Architecture and Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Stamatis Zografos |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2019-06-12 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1787353729 |
Architecture 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. Architecture and Fire is founded in new interdisciplinary research navigating across the boundaries of architecture, conservation, archival theory, classical mythology, evolutionary theory, thermodynamics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It will be of interest to readers working in and around these disciplines.
The Fire Engine
Title | The Fire Engine PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Goodenough |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1987-06 |
Genre | Fire engines |
ISBN | 9780890098714 |
The Fire Engine reveals the power and fascination of the vehicles and equipment themselves, paying tribute to the engineers who create them and the dedicated men who use them.
A History of the British Fire Service
Title | A History of the British Fire Service PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Vaughan Blackstone |
Publisher | London : Routledge and Kegan Paul |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Fire departments |
ISBN |
Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades: with a history of manual and steam Fire Engines, etc
Title | Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades: with a history of manual and steam Fire Engines, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Frederick T. Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | Fire engines |
ISBN |
Fires and Fire-fighters
Title | Fires and Fire-fighters PDF eBook |
Author | John Kenlon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Fire extinction |
ISBN |