Publisher's Synopsis
From time immemorial have the natural elements determined and influenced man's thinking and expression of his being in the world. They are real pressures, related forces of changing material consistency, more concrete than just space and time, and surrounded by a meta-physical spell-power that inspires our actions today as it did so thousands of years ago. In terms of architecture, the elements invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building's experiential reality. This text analyses the present state of primordial natural elements in contemporary architecture.
