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Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance - Hardcover

Wayne Fields, Darell

 
9781472567031: Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 147256703X ISBN 13: 9781472567031
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic examination of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Now updated, this original study draws on a wider range of case studies, highlighting the racial techniques that can legitimize modern historicity, philosophy and architectural theory.

Arguing that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a linguistic practice, operate within the same semiotic paradigm, Darell Fields employs a technique whereby works are related through the repetition and revision of their semiotic structures. Fields reconstructs the genealogy of a black racial subject, represented by the simultaneous reading of a range of canonical texts from Hegel to Saussure to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Combining an historical survey of racial discourse with new readings resulting from advanced semiotic techniques doubling as spatial arrangements, Architecture in Black is an important contribution to studies of the racial in Western thought and its impact on architecture, space and time.

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About the Author

Darell Wayne Fields is Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley, USA and and Executive Editor of 'Appendix: Culture, Theory, Praxis'.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
147256703X
ISBN 13 
9781472567031
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
232