Surface and deep histories : critiques and practices in art, architecture and design / edited by Anuradha Chatterjee.

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Surface and deep histories : critiques and practices in art, architecture and design / edited by Anuradha Chatterjee.

Publication:

Description:

x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.
Introduction: Surface potentialities / Anuradha Chatterjee -- Montage and modernity: late nineteenth-century colonial graphic culture / Molly Duggins -- Between mischief and reason: wallpaper, femininity, and the production of space in the late-nineteenth century / Anna Daly -- Sartorialized space: the surfacing of expansive bodies / Stella North -- Hypersurface architecture (redux) / M. Hank Haeusler -- What's in a name? The in-between-ness of the verandah's public faces and threshold spaces / Chris Brisbin -- James Fergusson's theory of architecture: construction and ornament / Peter Kohane -- Scratching the surface: representational and symbolic practices of contemporary green architecture / Flavia Marcello and Ian Woodcock -- Surface typologies, critical function, and glass walls in Australian architecture / Anuradha Chatterjee.

Summary:

Surface in architecture has had a deeper and a more pervasive presence in the practice and theory of the discipline than is commonly supposed. Orientations to the surface emerge, collapse, and reappear, sustaining it as a legitimate theoretical and artefactual entity, despite the (twentieth-century) disciplinary definition of architecture as space, structure, and function. Even though surface is defended for its pervasiveness (Kurt Forster), its function as a theoretical motif with generative power (Andrew Benjamin), and in constituting the operative principles of modern architecture as a visual phenomenon (Mark Wigley), it occupies the interstice, or the space of the unconscious within architectural discourse, from where it defends its legitimacy as architecturally valuable or 'functional, ' as opposed to merely visually pleasurable. Surface and Deep Histories positions surface within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces. -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9781443854368
1443854360

Subject:

Historicism in architecture.
Space (Architecture)
Visionary architecture.
Historicisme en architecture.
Espace (Architecture)
Architecture visionnaire.
visionary architecture.
Architektur
Baukonstruktion
Fassadengestaltung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Chatterjee, Anuradha, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290277
Call No.: BIB 233249
Status: Available

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