Summary: Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume assembles Ruskin’s theory of surface architecture, or the adorned "wall veil." This book positions Ruskin as having proposed an unorthodox definition of architecture as surface, highlighting his major contribution to the field and an important moment in the history of architectural modernity. John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture examines how the creative act in architecture, analogous to the divine act of creation, was viewed as a form of dressing. By adding aesthetic elements that had no use, and taking inspiration from the ‘veil’ of women’s clothing, Ruskin believed that buildings could be transformed into meaningful architecture. This volume presents a theory of textile analogy in architecture based on morality and gender that equals the power of Gottfried Semper’s historicist perspective. Ruskin’s textile analogy connects the realms of soul, dress, gender, and body in architecture

Contents: Introduction John Ruskin and the Space of Surface 1.The Theory of the Wall (Veil) 2.Architecture as Dressed Female Body 3.The Theory of Dress 4.The Adorned Edifice(s) 5.Ruskin Effects.

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