On Surface and Place

Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4724-7764-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 194 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Reihe: Ashgate Studies in Architecture

On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Adopting weaving as its overarching metaphor, it departs from Gottfried Semper’s discussion of correspondences between architecture and textiles, and emerges from the reading of photographs, a swatch of Harris Tweed and curtain wall façade juxtaposed. In juxtaposing the fabric of the city with the weave of Harris Tweed the book charts an original course across a range of connected ideas and questions, combining many different themes, writers and disciplines. It presents integrated and innovative rethinkings on a number of fundamental relationships, including correlations between body and building, word and image, and between the rural and the metropolitan, and the hand-crafted and the mass-reproduced. In doing so, it seeks to foreground the very interrelationship of surface and place, as it makes a claim for the relational nature of the world in which we live.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carlin, Peta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. On Opening 2. Appearing Weaving 3. Wall Face 4. Image Word 5. Surface Pattern 6. Place Dressing 7. Ritual Repetition 8. Text Memory 9. On Closing Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peta Carlin is an artist and an essayist. She holds a PhD, along with a Bachelor degree in architecture, and an Honours and a Masters degree in fine art imaging. She is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, P.R. China.