This anthology, which collects the fundamental writings of Gottfried Semper (1803-1879), could have been titled, concisely, Fire and its protection, because the first member of the sentence is a synecdoche of the home, that is, of the lloc on the domestic fire burns and is preserved, while the second alludes to the three elements that promote this conservation and, therefore, they configure that lloc. 373 pages .: photo, Col ., 27 x 24 cm ., paperback