{"product_id":"architecture-in-black-theory-space-and-appearance-9781350009875","title":"Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarell Wayne Fields\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50849595261202,"sku":"9781350009875","price":58.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a2896d0e-a0bc-48fe-932a-e1b01ec7da54.jpg?v=1737399000","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/architecture-in-black-theory-space-and-appearance-9781350009875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}