Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance PDF
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Architecture in Black Also Available From Bloomsbury Aesthetics and Architecture, Edward Winters Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Daniel Herwitz Art, Myth and Society in Hegel’s Aesthetics, David James The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture, edited by Nadir Lahiji Architecture in Black Theory, Space, and Appearance Darell Wayne Fields With a Foreword by Cornel West To Kathleen and Jessie Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction to Second Edition Foreword (First Edition) 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 Subject in Architectural Discourse Signification of the first order: Laws of emergence 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: Toward 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 the 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 Afterthought: The End: Of Absence Works Cited Index List of Illustrations F.1 Becoming, J.L. Fields, 2014 2.1 Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Gonineau: a comprehensive historical/racial table (by author) 2.2 Double diagram, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, 1988. From The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Oxford University Press 2.3 A comparative structure of the linguistic sign and resulting forms of signification (by author) 3.1 Watkin’s and Pevsner’s historical definitions of architecture superimposed on a diagram representing Gates’s black vernacular (by author) 3.2 Agrest and Gandelsonas’s theoretical definitions of architecture superimposed on a diagram representing Gates’s black vernacular (by author) 6.1 A comparative structure of formal principles of language and spatial types (by author) 6.2 Saussure’s linguistic plane versus Gates’s linguistic projection (by author) 6.3 Totemic Operator, C. Lévi-Strauss, 1966. From The Savage Mind. Courtesy of the University of Chicago Press 6.4 House for Josephine Baker. Adaptation of Lévi-Strauss’s Totemic Operator (by author) 6.5 The Black Architectonic diagram. Adaptation of Lévi-Strauss’s Totemic Operator (by author) 6.6 Intentionally Left Black I (by author) 6.7 Intentionally Left Black II (by author) 6.8 Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton, Étienne-Louis Boullée, 1784 6.9 House of the Agricultural Guards of Maupertuis, section, Claude- Nicolas Ledoux, ca. 1780 6.10 Solohouse, Lebbeus Woods, 1988–9 6.11 Berlin 1983, John Hejduk, 1983 6.12 House for Kara Walker, Darell Wayne Fields, 2011 6.13 2611 Exline 2611 Exline, Darell Wayne Fields, 2011 6.14 Hatcher Street Cenotaph, Darell Wayne Fields, 2011 6.15 Black Signifier, Darell Wayne Fields, 2011 Acknowledgments Since the original publication of Architecture in Black, at the turn of the last century, a lot has changed. I acknowledge distant friends and estranged mentors. Most are mentioned, there, in the acknowledgments of the first edition. Becoming “distant” is a result, perhaps, of being bound to, and pulled apart by, our respective convictions. Regardless, I remain indebted to them all. Unexpectedly, there are the new acquaintances. Those, unknown initially, who reach out offering opportunities that re-enliven the spirit. I am deeply indebted to CentralTrak, The University at Dallas Artists Residency, and its former Director, A. Kate Sheerin. Time spent during my residency (2010–11) allowed me to visualize the theory of the “architecture in black” project. The results of those reflections are published here for the first time. I also thank Colleen Coalter, Commissioning Editor of Philosophy at Bloomsbury Publishing, for her unexpected enquiry resulting in the publication of the second edition. Finally, there are those who seem to have always been with us. Who, with the force of objective intellect, regardless of change, demand that we move forward along a principled path. To her, Kathleen Fields, I dedicate the entirety of this work as a demonstration of my ongoing efforts, with her guidance, to do just that.
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