Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance - Paperback

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Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance - Paperback

Name: Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance - Paperback
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by Darell Wayne Fields

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by Darell Wayne Fields (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Darell Wayne Fields is a Lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Number of Pages: 232

Dimensions: 0.49 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN

Illustrated: Yes

Publication Date: September 22, 2016

ISBN	9781350009875
Author	Darell Wayne Fields
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Genre	Design and Philosophy
Format	Paperback
Published	September 2016
Language	ENG- English
Pages	232
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print