Architecture in Black

By Darrell W. Fields

Architecture in Black argues that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a lingusitic practice, operate within the same semiotic paradigm. The book presents the first systematic analysis of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Employing a technique whereby texts are realted through the repetition and revision of their semiotic structures, Architecture in Black reconstructs the genealogy of a black racial subject reprsented by the simultaneous reading of a range of canonical apparatus invented by this reading is then used to critique a discrete set of architectural texts, demonstrating the presence of the 'black venacular' in contemporary architectural theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0485004119
• ISBN13: 9780485004113
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.6"