Architecture in Black

Based on analysis of historical philosophical and semiotic texts <i>Architecture in Black</i> 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.<br/><br/>Arguing 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.<br/><br/>Combining an historical survey of racial discourse with new readings resulting from advanced semiotic techniques doubling as spatial arrangements <i>Architecture in Black</i> is an important contribution to studies of the racial in Western thought and its impact on architecture space and time.