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This book investigates the interconnections between textile and
architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages
through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.
Among the oldest human technologies, building and weaving have
intertwined histories. Textile structures go back to Palaeolithic
times and are still in use today and textile furnishings have long
been used in interiors. Beyond its use as a material, textile has
offered a captivating model and metaphor for architecture through
its ability to enclose, tie together, weave, communicate, and
adorn. Recently, architects have shown a renewed interest in the
textile medium due to the use of computer-aided design, digital
fabrication, and innovative materials and engineering. The essays
edited and compiled here, work across disciplines to provide new
insights into the enduring relationship between textiles and
architecture. The contributors critically explore the spatial and
material qualities of textiles as well as cultural and political
significance of textile artifacts, patterns, and metaphors in
architecture. Textile in Architecture is organized into three
sections: "Ritual Spaces," which examines the role of textiles in
the formation and performance of socio-political, religious, and
civic rituals; "Public and Private Interiors" explores how textiles
transformed interiors corresponding to changing aesthetics,
cultural values, and material practices; and "Materiality and
Material Translations," which considers textile as metaphor and
model in the materiality of built environment. Including cases from
Morocco, Samoa, France, India, UK, Spain, the Ancient Andes and the
Ottoman Empire, this is essential reading for any student or
researcher interested in textiles in architecture through the ages.
This book investigates the interconnections between textile and
architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages
through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.
Among the oldest human technologies, building and weaving have
intertwined histories. Textile structures go back to Palaeolithic
times and are still in use today and textile furnishings have long
been used in interiors. Beyond its use as a material, textile has
offered a captivating model and metaphor for architecture through
its ability to enclose, tie together, weave, communicate, and
adorn. Recently, architects have shown a renewed interest in the
textile medium due to the use of computer-aided design, digital
fabrication, and innovative materials and engineering. The essays
edited and compiled here, work across disciplines to provide new
insights into the enduring relationship between textiles and
architecture. The contributors critically explore the spatial and
material qualities of textiles as well as cultural and political
significance of textile artifacts, patterns, and metaphors in
architecture. Textile in Architecture is organized into three
sections: "Ritual Spaces," which examines the role of textiles in
the formation and performance of socio-political, religious, and
civic rituals; "Public and Private Interiors" explores how textiles
transformed interiors corresponding to changing aesthetics,
cultural values, and material practices; and "Materiality and
Material Translations," which considers textile as metaphor and
model in the materiality of built environment. Including cases from
Morocco, Samoa, France, India, UK, Spain, the Ancient Andes and the
Ottoman Empire, this is essential reading for any student or
researcher interested in textiles in architecture through the ages.
The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned
to communicate through color Architectural drawings of the Italian
Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth
century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural
representation grew and flourished. Basile Baudez argues that
colors appeared on paper when architects adapted the pictorial
tools of imitation, cartographers' natural signs, military
engineers' conventions, and, finally, painters' affective goals in
an attempt to communicate with a broad public. Inessential Colors
traces the use of color in European architectural drawings and
prints, revealing how this phenomenon reflected the professional
anxieties of an emerging professional practice that was
simultaneously art and science. Traversing national borders, the
book addresses color as a key player in the long history of rivalry
and exchange between European traditions in architectural
representation and practice. Featuring a wealth of previously
unpublished drawings, Inessential Colors challenges the
long-standing misreading of architectural drawings as illustrations
rather than representations, pointing instead to their inherent
qualities as independent objects whose beauty paved the way for the
visual system architects use today.
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