Research Catalog

Title

Architecture in black : theory, space, and appearance / Darell Wayne Fields ; with a foreword by Cornel West.

Author

Fields, Darell Wayne

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, [2015]

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Details

Description

xiv, 216 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Architecture and race
• Architecture > Philosophy
• Color in architecture
• Semiotics and architecture
• Space (Architecture)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index.

Contents

PART I: THEORY -- Forethought: On Blackness and Time -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Hegel's Tropes: History, Architecture and the Black Subject Philosophy and Aesthetics: A Total Model of History The Subject Identified Full Force of the Effect: The Negation of the Black Subject The Symbolic Category: Architecture's Blackness Transcending the Black Subject -- 2. Scheming the Scheme: The Technique of Revision A Racial Model of the Dialectic The Consistency of Ideas A Comprehensive Diagram A Linguistic Revision of Aesthetics Reintroduction of the Black Subject -- 3. Tropological Cases: the Racial Object in Architectural Discourse Signification of the First Order: Laws of Emergence Case 1: An Original Essay on Style Case 2: A Reflective Essay on Style Case 3: A Philosophical Essay on Style Signification of the Second Order: Operations on a Black Signifier Contemporary Architectural Theory: Talking Black -- Afterthought A Monkey Reading ... Fanon -- PART II: ORDERS OF SPACE AND APPEARANCE -- Forethought: The Negative Constructs -- Introduction to Part II -- 4. Black Autonomy The Classical (P)eriod Space and Time: Kant and the Indivisible The Medieval as Symbolic: An Other Space, Another Time Kant, Blackness and Autonomy: Towards a Black Formalism -- 5. Space and Time in the Classical (P)eriod From Space to Appearance Spatial Orders in the Birth of Tragedy Visualizing Autonomy: A Reflection on a History of Styles The Spatial Diagrammatic -- 6. Architecture and the Classical (P)eriod Building on Language: Black Architectonics Spatial Linguistics and the Hall of Mirrors The Black Architectonic: A Methodological Note Now Imagine a Monkey Sitting in a Dark Place Trying to See Architecture for the First Time Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) John Hejduk (1929-2000) Darell Fields (1962- ) -- Afterthought The End: Of Absence.

Call Number

Sc E 15-1221

ISBN

• 9781472567031
• 147256703X
• 9781472567055 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472567048 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014041339

OCLC

903361769

Author

Fields, Darell Wayne, author.

Title

Architecture in black : theory, space, and appearance / Darell Wayne Fields ; with a foreword by Cornel West.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, [2015]

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1221