The textile wall as described by Gottfried Semper is omnipresent in the visual landscape. Its materiality, the fruit of techniques and materials ranging from the most archaic to the most innovative, lends itself to a variety of uses covering the fields of architecture, art and design. The creators who make use of it invite us on a “transart” journey through the flexibility and flow of textile, ultimately reaching the realm of clothing, considered the primitive architecture of the body.Anthropomorphised in this dissertation, textile tells its epic story through examples illustrating a form of communication we have called “textile ar(t)chitecture”.
