Main entry:

Fields, Darell Wayne, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture in black / Darell Wayne Fields.

Publication:

London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press, 2000.
Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the United States by Transaction Publishers.

Description:

xxix, 189 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.
Forethought Black Reflections on Architecture 1 -- An Answer to the Question: "So What Does Blackness Have to Do with Architecture?" 1 -- On Solitude 5 -- A Black Manifesto 17 -- Chapter 1 Hegel's Tropes: History, Architecture, and the Black Subject 53 -- Philosophy and Aesthetics: A Total Model of History 53 -- Subject Identified 61 -- Full Force of the Effect: The Negation of the Black Subject 65 -- Symbolic Category: Architecture's Blackness 71 -- Transcending the Black Subject 80 -- Chapter 2 Scheming the Scheme: The Technique of Revision 85 -- A Racial Model of the Dialectic 85 -- Consistency of Ideas 89 -- A Comprehensive Diagram 96 -- A Linguistic Revision of Aesthetics 103 -- Reintroduction of the Black Subject 112 -- Chapter 3 Tropological Cases: The Racial Object in Architectural Discourse 125 -- Signification of the First Order: Laws of Emergence 125 -- Case 1 An Original Essay on Style 128 -- Case 2 A Reflective Essay on Style 134 -- Case 3 A Philosophical Essay on Style 140 -- Signification of the Second Order: Operations on a Black Signifier 144 -- Contemporary Architectural Theory: Talking Black 152 -- Afterthought 163 -- A Monkey Reading ... Fanon 163.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Architecture in Black argues that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a linguistic 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 related through the repetition and revision of their semiotic structures, Architecture in Black 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. The conceptual apparatus invented by this reading is then used to critique a discrete set of architectural texts, demonstrating the presence of the "black vernacular" in contemporary architectural theory."--Jacket

ISBN:

0485004119 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780485004113 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and race.
Architecture et race.
Architekturtheorie
Schwarze

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224238
Call No.: NA2543.R37 F53 2000
Status: Available