On Surface and Place: Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography

ISBN-13: 9781472477644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 174 str.

Peta Carlin

Opis

On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces and foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Departing from Gottfried Semper s discussion of correspondences between architecture and textiles, the study 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 re-thinkings 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."

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.