Textile in architecture : from the Middle Ages to modernism / edited by Didem Ekici, Patricia Blessing and Basile Baudez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ekici, Didem, editor.

Blessing, Patricia, editor.

Baudez, Basile, 1974- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics--Case studies.

Textile fabrics.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 217 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Didem Ekici is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham. She is the co-editor of Housing and the City (Routledge, 2022). Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body (Routledge, 2017) as well as the author of numerous articles on modern architecture culture. She is currently working on her monograph titled Body, Cloth, and Clothing in Architecture from the Age of Mass Manufacture to the First World War. She has held research fellowships from The Wellcome Trust, The German Academic Exchange Service, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, and The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Patricia Blessing is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Her first book, Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240-1330 (Ashgate, 2014) investigates the relationship between patronage, politics, and architectural style after the integration of the region into the Mongol empire. Her second book, Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2022) analyses how transregional exchange and the use of paper shaped building practices across the Ottoman realm. Blessing's work has been supported by ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Cultures, the British Academy, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Society of Architectural Historians, the Barakat Trust, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Basile Baudez is Assistant Professor of architectural history in the Art & Archaeology department at Princeton University. His first book Architecture et Tradition Académique au Sic̈le des Lumir̈es (2012) questions the role of architects in early modern European academies. He co-edited several volumes dedicated to French architecture and curated exhibitions on architectural drawings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Courtauld Institute of Art. His latest book, Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2021) questions the role of color in Western architectural representation from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. He currently works on an urban history of textiles in 18th-century Venice.

Contents:

Ritual Spaces

Public and Private Interiors

Materiality and Material Translations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Textile in architecture

ISBN:

9781003281276

1003281273

9781000900446

1000900444

9781000900361

1000900363

Publisher Number:

40031860729

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.