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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A thank you from a Bristol Boro resident of the pass.By Walter MinnichbachI think this book is a gift from the authors Harold and Carol Mitchener both authors donated all of there time and I am sure cost in giving the community of Bristol Boro Pa. and the country information of the pass. I thank you both and hope that there is more to come from both of your guys.
