Architecture Began with Fire

[@stewarthicks]

Are there other great spaces shaped by fire?

[@deliriouswith]

Restaurants/food cooking spaces, factories/workshops with furnaces, incineration plants, crematoria...

[@seantay96]

I love the look and feel of shoshugibon! It also has some great properties that help it age well.

[@urbancolab]

The hearth at falling water

[@j.pendergrass9805]

Rome...

[@emmamemma4162]

A sauna.

[@mox.kartal]

This channel became so fast one of my favourite on the entire internet. You produce such unique, and yet really fulfilling and intellectually challenging content on a such a regular basis that it is simply amazing. As an architect myself I am really grateful for your endeavor and i firmly believe that your students are really blessed with such a professor. I especially liked your "modernist trilogy" about Wright, Mies and Le Corbusier..but i am also mesmerized with your more unusual videos such is one about leaking or architecture in pop culture etc. so this comment could be posted on any of your videos. Cheers. :D

[@stewarthicks]

Thank you so much! I'm certainly still in testing phases with the content and trying out different things. I enjoy all of it and really appreciate your kind words.

[@deliriouswith]

Favorite fire codes?!?! You got me there Stewart...even after doing an occupational risk prevention course I am not able to state any. But your video put a new perspective on things, thanks for raising the bar! It's a pleasure to watch your videos

[@stewarthicks]

Haha, admittedly it was probably a rhetorical question. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@agustinvenegas5238]

This makes me think of perhaps a series on how the 4 classical elements shape architecture, really love to have found your channel, it's pure gold

[@stewarthicks]

I'm glad you found it too. That's a great suggestion.

[@joehopfield]

I watched an architect friend build a campfire like that 20 years ago, it worked like magic. Elegant explanation and connections.

[@agbeyenumadison6048]

I am so glad that this channel exists. I was driving myself crazy trying to find a channel like this.

[@SilvrRazorFeather]

This was such a fascinating way to discuss this topic, I know a lot about campfires but not much about architecture. The direct comparisons made the information so much more palatable

[@greenplastic25]

This similar concept has been written in Spatial Structure by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen and I thought it was interesting. I love your thorough and practical approach of how fire shapes space and regulation. Amazing!

[@christyanderson1097]

Great video! Teaching a course right now on architecture and the four elements.....and just as your video came out, it was the week we are looking at FIRE! Thanks for a great series and please keep making these!

[@iraloo]

Fire is also an important element in the tents which used by the Turks living in Central Asia. Wooden structure of the tent is set up circularly around the fire called 'Ocak' which located in middle. And there is an opening at the top of the tent to evacuate the smoke.

[@stewarthicks]

Thank you for sharing.

[@iraloo]

@@stewarthicks You're welcome, thank you for the video.😊

[@philarends7555]

Really enjoy your work. Keep up with the comedy. It's a fun switch up. This and the cantilever vids were great.

[@alec4672]

Ascent Apartments in Milwaukee Wisconsin is soon to be the tallest timber structure in the world. As a Wisconsinite I'm very proud 😂🤙 Living in the Midwest there's still lots of server farms with halon fire suppression systems installed.

[@caseyahlbrandt-rains103]

fire, now that's hot

[@caseyahlbrandt-rains103]

I made a fire in that exact same pit once!

[@DarylBrickman-wu9jv]

Thank you for including Peter Zumthor's chapel. I love that building, but can never remember what it's called or who designed it. Fascinating building. Great video btw as always. Love the channel. How about a vid on Alexander Girard's only surviving building, Albert Frey, Nuetra's Schaffer House (a typical of his work), Farnsworth, Ettore Sottsass, or islamic architecture.

[@Red_Proton]

When I first clicked this video, it made me think of light inside of a structure. One of the first editions of Parabola that I read was about the use of fire and light. I'd be interested in your perspective of the use of fire and light inside homes/buildings both before and after electricity [and electric light]. Thanks!

[@stevevice9863]

Modern furnaces, water heaters and appliances don't have continuously burning pilot lights. They have igniters that fire when the thermostat calls for heat, or when you turn the knob on your cooktop.

[@Red_Proton]

Are there interesting things about monolithic dome buildings? I recently learned about them and they've caught my interest. Thanks!

[@GhostedStories]

Thanks, I learned a lot!

[@jimargeropoulos8309]

'Don't have to be an expert" and shows Larry Haun teaching framing. Ha ha

[@stewarthicks]

Good catch.

[@charpnatl]

The cooking clip was a bit much LOL!

[@SaiSantoshMARU]

Warm video!

[@mattking3239]

so good.

[@stewarthicks]

Thank you Matt!!

[@vivi_nguyenxx]

would love to hear you approch foucault’ heterotopia from an architect pov

[@stewarthicks]

I talk a little about it in the Westworld video, but could definitely spend more time on it. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@ArkMaDuke]

woods always makes me unease, like log cabins, and my prof says that architects are almost an environmentalist because of climate change effects when we cut woods, but yeah I WAS HERE

[@AivoPaas]

That wheelbarrow has seen some fire...

[@stewarthicks]

Talk to my brother!

[@mcmaja]

Dude, he totally said it was you.

[@dianafridabtmfrid923]

i saw peter zumthors chapel on the thumbnail n i thought it was about him lol

[@woltews]

we need one on water now

[@stewarthicks]

Leaks!

[@woltews]

@@stewarthicks I was thinking more floods, plumbing , water transport in architecture and water features which would also touch on landscaping

[@mmtcar]

This new shorter way to give your resume is better. Though i'd rather watch a video about your experience and academic history than listening to it in every single intro...

[@kevinwelsh7490]

please make your videos 15 mins duration or more so then I can log them for Professional Development credits. I'm a licensed architect in BC.

[@wadeguidry6675]

I see fire and I think of Beavis of Beavis and Butthead fame. Actually I hear Beavis' beautiful voice saying "fire!".

[@jasonmajere2165]

Going up North I see. Hard to look up NFPA code without paying for it.

[@alaskanuni]

Fire codes: so hot right now.

[@jinliiang]

i see peter zumthor in the thumbnail i click

[@62Cristoforo]

Could this explain why northern (circumpolar) cultures evolved faster than equatorial cultures? Colder climates demand inhabitants to organize, plan, design and construct shelters to protect against harsh elements, whereas people in warmer climates could simply live comfortably little need for such complex designs?

[@stevevice9863]

That cabin has vinyl shingles...kind of ironic on an episode involving wood.

[@stewarthicks]

My family did that behind my back. I guess it’s low maintenance which is nice.

[@stevevice9863]

@@stewarthicks I've done work for my family, so I know it can be difficult. Vinyl solves a lot of maintenance issues, but it is a hard pill to swallow for Architects....we tend to be purists sometimes.

[@williamrobinson4265]

I just watched an architect build the worst fire I've ever seen

[@marinoceccotti9155]

Cinder-blocks are less flammable.

[@joeb4867]

With so much loss from fires in recent years I still have no idea why we need to burn a pile of wood to inspire a good conversation. Ask folks in California and Colorado if they need a large pile of burning wood to toast marshmallows.

[@R.E.A.L.I.T.Y]

Gottfried was projecting. If humans evolved in cold lands a fire hearth may have been central to a building but homo sapiens emerged in a warm temperate climate. Shelter from rain was the heart of architecture. So water not fire.

[@roberthudson7033]

I think Stewart is laughing at how many words it took to "build the perfect fire"

[@jtcorey7681]

Lessons on how an architect makes a fire. Did you get a cost-plus contract for it? 😆

[@Spookspek]

Next up: piranhas in architecture

[@miguelliera956]

You are hotter than the fire

[@rbriggsaa]

hahaha yesss

[@hollanderson]

Time to burn down my house :)

[@stewarthicks]

Gotta start somewhere.

[@joemcgrane4925]

This was such a fascinating way to discuss this topic, I know a lot about campfires but not much about architecture. The direct comparisons made the information so much more palatable

[@juditalbin]

Fire is also an important element in the tents which used by the Turks living in Central Asia. Wooden structure of the tent is set up circularly around the fire called 'Ocak' which located in middle. And there is an opening at the top of the tent to evacuate the smoke.

[@stewarthicks]

Interesting!

[@QuyenTran-sb7xy]

fire, now that's hot