{"product_id":"architecture-in-black-paperback","title":"Architecture in Black - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarell Wayne Fields\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarell Wayne Fields\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52490710057253,"sku":"9781350009875","price":95.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0977\/5104\/0293\/files\/dlZ6c0VKa29mR005VE1KdU0rTXJ4Zz09.webp?v=1780081667","url":"https:\/\/world-safari-shops.myshopify.com\/products\/architecture-in-black-paperback","provider":"World Safari Shops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}