{"product_id":"architecture-in-black-theory-space-and-appearance-9781350009875","title":"Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Darell Wayne Fields\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, \u003ci\u003eArchitecture in Black\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArguing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining an historical survey of racial discourse with new readings resulting from advanced semiotic techniques doubling as spatial arrangements, \u003ci\u003eArchitecture in Black\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to studies of the racial in Western thought and its impact on architecture, space and time.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082299400343,"sku":"9781350009875","price":4972.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350009875.webp?v=1767142504","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/architecture-in-black-theory-space-and-appearance-9781350009875","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}