Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance

ISBN-10: 1474219705
ISBN-13: 9781474219709
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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Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance
- 2000
- 233 pages
- Paperback
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- 2015-03-12
- 233 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance
- 2015-03-12
- 208 pages
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