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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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London, England :
Bloomsbury,
2000.
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| Edition: | Updated edition. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=959267 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472567055 1472567056 9781472567031 9781472567048 147256703X |