Review: Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism

Book Review| June 01 2024 Review: Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism Didem Ekici, Patricia Blessing, and Basile Baudez, eds. Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism. London: Routledge, 2023, 240 pp. , 89 b/w illus. 170 (cloth), 9781032250441; 48. 95 (paper), ISBN 9781032250427 Sylvia Houghteling Sylvia Houghteling Bryn Mawr College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 233–234. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 233 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 233–234. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 233 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism provides an incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between the textile medium and architecture. As Didem Ekici, Patricia Blessing, and Basile Baudez write in their editors' introduction, the book is intended to "generate dialogue across diverse periods and geographies" (4). The eleven essays indeed illuminate unexpected continuities in the ways textiles have enhanced and unsettled architectural spaces, and they open exciting possibilities for how insights from one context might contribute to a better understanding of architecture and textiles in other settings. The book is organized into three sections: "Ritual Spaces" addresses the use of textiles in the spatial configuration of "socio-political, religious, and civic rituals" (4–5) ; "Public and Private Interiors" highlights textiles as agents of and inspiration for aesthetic, cultural, and material change; and "Materiality and Material Translations, " "considers textile as metaphor and model in the materiality of the built. . . You do not currently have access to this content.