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1 online resource (245 pages) |
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Introduction: Surface potentialities / Anuradha Chatterjee -- Montage and modernity: late nineteenth-century colonial graphic culture / Molly Duggins -- Between mischief and reason: wallpaper, femininity, and the production of space in the late-nineteenth century / Anna Daly -- Sartorialized space: the surfacing of expansive bodies / Stella North -- Hypersurface architecture (redux) / M. Hank Haeusler -- What's in a name? The in-between-ness of the verandah's public faces and threshold spaces / Chris Brisbin -- James Fergusson's theory of architecture: construction and ornament / Peter Kohane -- Scratching the surface: representational and symbolic practices of contemporary green architecture / Flavia Marcello and Ian Woodcock -- Surface typologies, critical function, and glass walls in Australian architecture / Anuradha Chatterjee |
| Summary |
Surface in architecture has had a deeper and a more pervasive presence in the practice and theory of the discipline than is commonly supposed. Orientations to the surface emerge, collapse, and reappear, sustaining it as a legitimate theoretical and artefactual entity, despite the (twentieth-century) disciplinary definition of architecture as space, structure, and function. Even though surface is defended for its pervasiveness (Kurt Forster), its function as a theoretical motif with generative .. |
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Print version record |
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Indus civilization.
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Landscape archaeology -- South Asia
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Material culture -- India -- History -- To 1500
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Social archaeology -- South Asia
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Architecture.
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History of architecture.
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Theory of architecture.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
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Antiquities
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Indus civilization
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Landscape archaeology
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Material culture
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Social archaeology
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India -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064871
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India
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South Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443862967 |
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1443862967 |
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