Surface and deep histories : critiques and practices in art, architecture and design / edited by Anuradha Chatterjee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Surface Potentialities / Anuradha Chatterjee -- 1. Montage and modernity late nineteenth-century colonila graphic culture / Molly Duggins -- 2. Between mischief and reason: wallpaper, femininity and th eproduction of space in the late nineteenth-century / Anna Daly -- 3. Sartorialised space: the surfacing of expansive bodies / Stella North -- 4. Hypersurface architecture [redux] / M. Hank Haeusler -- 5. What's in a name? The in-between-ness of the veranda's public faces and threshold spaces / Chris Brisbin -- 6. Jame's Fergusson's theory of architecture: construction and ornament / Peter Kohane -- 7. Scratchingthe surface: representational and symbolic practices of contemporary green architecture / Flavia Marcello and Ian Woodcock -- 8. Surface typologies, critical function and glass walls in Australian architecture / Anuradha Chatterjee.

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 power (Andrew Benjamin), and in constituting the operative principles of modern architecture as a visual phenomenon (Mark Wigley), it occupies the interstice, or the space of the unconscious within architectural discourse, from where it defends its legitimacy as architecturally valuable or 'functional,' as opposed to merely visually pleasurable. Surface and Deep Histories positions surface within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces. -- back cover.