Resumen de Vision and power at the Qala Bani Hammad in Islamic North Africa
The gaze and the framed view in which architecture and landscape determine the field of vision are subjects of profound interest among contemporary art and architectural historians. In particular, studies that call into question the position of the viewer are at the center of deconstruction theory as practiced in a variety of disciplines. Rather than assuming that the meaning of a text, image, or building will be revealed through close study of its structure, we are now asking how those structures, which a decade or two ago seemed fixed and lodged in a clearly discoverable context, may be the creation of a point of view that is largely dependent upon the viewer's own expectations and criteria for observing.
