Uses myths, legends, images, and ideas from around the world to tell how four basic natural elements have inspired people in the past.

Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building's experiential reality during construction, one ought

The book describes the structure, composition and evolution of the Earth, the main geological processes occurring on it, and how some crucial environmental matt

Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought."

"A treasure trove of practical magic for both novices and more experienced practitioners...beautifully crafted spells that invoke the alchemy of possibility."�