Architecture in black :: theory, space and appearance /

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...

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Main Author: Fields, Darell Wayne (Author)
Other Authors: West, Cornel (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London, England : Bloomsbury, 2000.
Edition:Updated edition.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 an.
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781472567055
1472567056

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