A new edited collection for Cambridge Scholars Publishing by Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Xi‚an Jiaotong Liverpool University) titled Surface and Deep Histories: Critiques and Practices in Art, Architecture and Design has just been released. 

Surface and Deep Histories shows that architectural surface is not thin˜spatially or conceptually. It demonstrates that the practice of surface is simultaneously superficial and pervasive, symbol and space, meaningful and functional, static and transitory, and object and envelope. Surface and Deep Histories invites critical commentary on Œuses‚, figurations, scales, and typologies of surface, and it encourages consideration of case studies from across art, architectural, design writing and practice. Surface studies is an emerging area of research and there are as yet few books which consider the interdisciplinary breadth and relevance of these debates.

The book will show that the discipline of architecture is not exclusively defined by space, function, and structure alone and that surface is an ever present yet overlooked aspect of its disciplinary ambit.

  • Introduction. Surface Potentialities. Anuradha Chatterjee
  • Chapter One. Montage and Modernity: Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Graphic Culture. Molly Duggins
  • Chapter Two. Wallpaper, Femininity, and the Production of Space in the Late-Nineteenth Century. Anna Daly
  • Chapter Three. Sartorialized Space: The Surfacing of Expansive Bodies. Stella North
  • Chapter Four. Hypersurface architecture [redux]. M Hank Haeusler
  • Chapter Five. Whats in a Name?: The In-between-ness of the Verandah‚s Public Faces and Threshold Spaces. Chris Brisbin
  • Chapter Six. Rational Complexity: James Fergusson‚s Theory of Ornament. Peter Kohane
  • Chapter Seven. Scratching the Surface: Representational and Symbolic Practices of Contemporary Green Architecture. Flavia Marcello and Ian Woodcock
  • Chapter Eight. Surface Typologies, Critical Function, and Glass Walls in Australian Architecture. Anuradha Chatterjee