On Surface and Place - Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography (Paperback)

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 facade 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Release date:	March 2020
First published:	2016
Authors:	Peta Carlin
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-50216-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-367-50216-X
Barcode:	9780367502164

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