Architecture in black
By: Darell Wayne Fields.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Architecture and race
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.