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Architecture in black / Darell Wayne Fields.
Fine Arts Library NA2543.R37 F53 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fields, Darell Wayne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and race.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 189 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the United States by Transaction Publishers, 2000.
- Summary:
- Architecture in Black argues that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a lingusitic practice, operate within the same semiotic paradigm. The book presents the first systematic analysis of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Employing a technique whereby texts are realted through the repetition and revision of their semiotic structures, Architecture in Black reconstructs the genealogy of a black racial subject reprsented by the simultaneous reading of a range of canonical apparatus invented by this reading is then used to critique a discrete set of architectural texts, demonstrating the presence of the 'black venacular' in contemporary architectural theory.
- Contents:
- Forethought Black Reflections on Architecture 1
- An Answer to the Question: "So What Does Blackness Have to Do with Architecture?" 1
- On Solitude 5
- A Black Manifesto 17
- Chapter 1 Hegel's Tropes: History, Architecture, and the Black Subject 53
- Philosophy and Aesthetics: A Total Model of History 53
- The Subject Identified 61
- Full Force of the Effect: The Negation of the Black Subject 65
- The Symbolic Category: Architecture's Blackness 71
- Transcending the Black Subject 80
- Chapter 2 Scheming the Scheme: The Technique of Revision 85
- A Racial Model of the Dialectic 85
- The Consistency of Ideas 89
- A Comprehensive Diagram 96
- A Linguistic Revision of Aesthetics 103
- Reintroduction of the Black Subject 112
- Chapter 3 Tropological Cases: The Racial Object in Architectural Discourse 125
- Signification of the First Order: Laws of Emergence 125
- Case 1 An Original Essay on Style 128
- Case 2 A Reflective Essay on Style 134
- Case 3 A Philosophical Essay on Style 140
- Signification of the Second Order: Operations on a Black Signifier 144
- Contemporary Architectural Theory: Talking Black 152
- Afterthought 163
- A Monkey Reading ... Fanon 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0485004119
- OCLC:
- 42772512
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