About this title: The complicity between architecture and fashion is explored in essays by Mark Wigley, Val Warke, and Leila Kinney, among others, and architectural projects by Machado and Silvetti, Diller + Scofidio, and Venturi Scott Brown. Topics range from the encoding of gender in fashion within the work of Semper, Wagner, Loos, and Le Corbusier to a discussion of the body as a scaffold for the display of ready-made wear. Paulette Singley and Deborah Fausch provide an introduction.
"Architecture: In Fashion comes recommended with the caveat that it is not light reading. In fact, you may finish with a ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781878271990ISBN:1878271997
Description: As New with no dust jacket. 1-878271-99-7. 414 pp. Unread. Black stripe on lower edge of book. Essays and projects from a symposiium at the Princeton School of Architecture in April 1991, examing architecture in relation to clothing design.; Remainder; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Date Published: 1996-01-01
ISBN-13:9781878271990ISBN:1878271997
Description: Good. 1994 copyright. Shelf wear/ crease on front of paperback cover. Corners bumped. However, pages are clean and binding is tight. All proceeds benefit local libraries. read more
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