Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism (1st Edition)

• Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism explores the rich, interwoven relationship between textiles and architecture across centuries and cultures. Through compelling case studies, this volume uncovers how textile has shaped architectural form, function, and meaning from the Middle Ages through modernism.

• Key Features:

  • Interdisciplinary essays that connect textile artifacts, architectural theory, and design history.

  • Organized into three thematic sections:

    • Ritual Spaces: Investigates the role of textiles in religious, civic, and political ceremonies.

    • Public and Private Interiors: Examines how textiles shaped interior aesthetics and domestic spaces.

    • Materiality and Material Translations: Explores textiles as metaphors, structural models, and surface treatments in architecture.

  • Global scope, with case studies spanning the Ottoman Empire, France, Morocco, India, Samoa, the Ancient Andes, and the UK.

  • Explores the impact of digital fabrication, innovative materials, and CAD in reimagining the textile-architecture relationship.

• Ideal For:

  • Students and researchers in architecture, design history, textile studies, material culture, and art history.

  • Architects, designers, curators, and interdisciplinary scholars interested in how fabrics have shaped built environments.

Authors:
Didem Ekici (Editor), Patricia Blessing (Editor), Basile Baudez (Editor)
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