On Surface and Place

Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography

Peta Carlin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317085805
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

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.

Index

‘The Abbey Memory System’ 136

Achilles, shield of 32n11

Acropolis 48

Aeschylus 102

agora (public meeting place) 27, 48

Albers, Anni 16n47, 16n48

Alberti, Leon Battista 10, 15n39; On the Art of Building in Ten Books 49

Anaximander 32n11

ancient Greece: buildings and colour 140; dēmioergoi (craftsmen) 24, 26; kosmos (order) 103; religion 24; theatre 48–9; women and veils 48; writing and memory 140; xenia (guest-friendship) 69

Anderson, Fiona 14n24

Antoine, Jean-Philippe 149n28, 151n55

apertio (opening) 49

apertionis mysterium see baptism

Apollinaire, Guillaume 136

Architectural Review 87

architecture parlante 51, 58n41

Arendt, Hannah 35n42, 55n6, 76n27, 76n28, 94n52, 131n37, 161n13, 164

Aretino, Pietro 57n29

Aristotle 51, 57n38, 75n16, 94n50, 112n53, 129n9, 150n31

arts and crafts, rift between 27

Asman, Carrie 109n11

Athena 25

Babbage, Charles 38n78

baptism, apertionis mysterium 49

Barasch, Moshe 57n31

Barber, E. J. W. 14n24, 38n89

Barthes, Roland 59n64

Barvas, Isle of Lewis 26

Baudelaire, Charles 37n76, 103

Beckett, Samuel 44

Bédard, Jean-François 57n40, 58n43, 58n48

Belting, Hans 12n2, 38n98

Benjamin, Andrew 55n6

Benjamin, Walter: on city architecture 112n59; on dwelling 113n64; on epiphora 75n18; ‘Experience and Poverty’ 113n70; on the face...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of epigraphs
• Acknowledgements
• On | Opening
• Appearing | Weaving
• Wall | Face
• Image | Word
• Surface | Pattern
• Place | Dressing
• Ritual | Repetition
• Text | Memory
• On | Closing
• Index