Architecture in black : theory, space and appearance / Darell Wayne Fields ; with a foreword by Cornel West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields, Darell Wayne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black.

Color in architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Dedication ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction to Second Edition ; Foreword (First Edition)

Part I. Theory. Chapter 1. Hegel's Tropes: History, Architecture, and the Black Subject ; Chapter 2. Scheming the Scheme: The Technique of Revision ; Chapter 3. Tropological Cases: The Racial Subject in Architectural Discourse ; Afterthought

Part II. Orders of Space and Appearance. Chapter 4. Black Autonomy ; Chapter 5. Space and Time in the Classical (P)eriod ; Chapter 6. Architecture and the Classical (P)eriod ; Afterthought

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350009875

1350009873

9781472567024

1472567021

9781474219709

1474219705

9781472567048

1472567048

9781472567055

1472567056

OCLC:

994610292