Architectures of Cloth

Harvard FAS

This comparative seminar examines the major role of textiles in architectural theory and practice, with a primary focus on India and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. Our objective is to think historically and cross-culturally about a subject—the concept of architextiles—that has resurfaced in recent decades. Key topics include: Mughal textile architecture; typologies of the tent and other mobile structures in colonial and postcolonial…