{"product_id":"9781472567031","title":"Architecture in Black Theory, Space and Appearance","description":"\u003ch1\u003eArchitecture in Black\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTheory, Space and Appearance\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDarell Wayne Fields\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDarell Wayne Fields\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 May 2015\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781472567031\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e232\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332040622220,"sku":"9781472567031","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e877a0bc-642a-4959-984c-10eb4b96178d.jpg?v=1783601134","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781472567031","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}