Routledge On Surface and Place: Architecture, Textiles, Photography

On Surface and Place offers a rich exploration of surfaces and their role in how we understand and experience place. Drawing on Gottfried Semper's ideas about correspondences between architecture and textiles, the book uses weaving as its central metaphor to connect disparate visual and material worlds. By juxtaposing Harris Tweed fabric with curtain wall facades and photographs, this study creates original insights across architecture, textile design, and photographic practice. The work combines diverse themes, writers and disciplinary perspectives to demonstrate how surfaces - whether woven, built or captured on film - shape our perception of space and place. Published by Routledge as part of the Ashgate Studies in Architecture series, this book is essential reading for scholars, architects and designers interested in the material and visual culture of the built environment.