Special Issue: Shaping Space: Textiles and ArchitectureThis issue considers the intricate and intriguing shaping of space between architecture and textiles, and how it offers many possibilities for innovative processes and creative thought. ContentsJanis Jeffries and Diana Wood Conroy, 'Shaping Space: Textiles and Architecture - an Introduction' Dinah Eastop: 'Outside In: Making Sense of the Deliberate Concealment of Garments Within Buildings' Filiz Klassen: 'From the Bazaar to Space Architecture: Fabrics Reshape Material and Spatial Qualities of Built Environments' Gevork Hartoonian: 'The Fabric of Fabrication' Lois Martin: 'Nasca: Woven Cosmos and Cross-Looped Time' Victoria Mitchell: 'Drawing Threads from Sight to Side'
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Winner of the ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal 2005'This journal has a lot going for it. It is easy to handle, well printed on good paper, imaginatively designed. Any university or college with an interest in textiles should subscribe to it and make it easily available. For individual scholars and makers, the journal provides a useful resource and will be a pleasure to collect and possess.'Times Higher Education'I welcome this journal as an exciting event, which has been long overdue. It provides a window into the vast field of textiles, which is the very fabric of our life.'Jasleen Dhamija, Independent Scholar'Textile aims to publish cutting-edge research into the meanings of cloth, within the broadest context of material and visual culture. On this first showing, the publication is not only academic but accessible, with diverse contributions presented in a readable format Textile shows that wider cultural interest in 'the crafts' comes when we dare to move
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Höhe: 244 mm
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978-1-84520-506-5 (9781845205065)
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Doran Ross is at UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles. Catherine Harper is Head of the School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton
* Shaping Space: Textiles and Architecture - An Introduction Janis Jefferies and Diana Wood Conroy * Outside In: Making Sense of the Deliberate Concealment of Garments within Buildings Dinah Eastop * From the Bazaar to Space Architecture: Fabrics Reshape Material and Spatial Qualities of Built Environments Filiz Klassen * The Fabric of Fabrication Gevork Hartoonian * The Textile as Structural Framework: Gottfried Semper's Bekleidungsprinzip and the Case of Vienna 1900 Rebecca Houze * Nasca: Woven Cosmos and Cross-looped Time Lois Martin * Drawing Threads from Sight to Site Victoria Mitchell
