Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance
- ISBN-10
- 1472567021
- ISBN-13
- 9781472567024
- Series
- Architecture in Black
- Category
- Black
- Pages
- 233
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Authors
- Cornel West, Darell Wayne Fields
Description
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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