Race and modern architecture : a critical history from the enlightenment to the present /
Race and modern architecture : a critical history from the enlightenment to the present /
edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (ix, 438 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits
- Culture, politics, and the built environment .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Notes on the Virginia capitol : nation, race, and slavery in Jefferson's America / American architecture in the black Atlantic : William Thornton's design for the United States Capitol / Drawing the color line : silence and civilization from Jefferson to Mumford / From "terrestrial paradise" to "dreary waste" : race and the Chinese garden in European eyes / Henry Van Brunt and white settler colonialism in the Midwest / The "new birth of freedom" : the Gothic revival and the aesthetics of abolitionism / Structural racialism in modern architectural theory / Race and miscegenation in early twentieth-century Mexican architecture / Modern architecture and racial eugenics at the Esposizione Universale di Roma / The invention of indigenous architecture / Erecting the skyscraper, erasing race / Modeling race and class : architectural photography and the U.S. Gypsum Research Village, 1952-1955 / Race and tropical architecture : the climate of decolonization and "Malayanization" / "Compartmentalized world" : race, architecture, and colonial crisis in Kenya and London / Style, race, and a mosque of the "Òyìnbó Dúdú" (White-Black) in Lagos Colony, 1894 / Black and blight / And thus not glowing brightly : Noah Purifoy's junk modernism / Open architecture, rightlessness, and citizens-to-come / Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson -- Mabel O. Wilson -- Peter Minosh -- Reinhold Martin -- Addison Godel -- Charles L. Davis II -- Joanna Merwood-Salisbury -- Irene Cheng -- Luis E. Carranza -- Brian L. McLaren -- Kenny Cupers -- Adrienne Brown -- Dianne Harris -- Jiat-Hwee Chang -- Mark Crinson -- Adedoyin Teriba -- Andrew Herscher -- Lisa Uddin -- Esra Akcan.
"Although race--a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination--has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century. Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism. By analyzing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery, colonialism, and inequality--from eighteenth-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing projects for immigrants--'Race and Modern Architecture' challenges, complicates, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress."--
9780822987413
Architecture and race--History.
Architecture and society--History.
Architecture, Modern.
Electronic Books.
NA2543 / .R334 2020
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Notes on the Virginia capitol : nation, race, and slavery in Jefferson's America / American architecture in the black Atlantic : William Thornton's design for the United States Capitol / Drawing the color line : silence and civilization from Jefferson to Mumford / From "terrestrial paradise" to "dreary waste" : race and the Chinese garden in European eyes / Henry Van Brunt and white settler colonialism in the Midwest / The "new birth of freedom" : the Gothic revival and the aesthetics of abolitionism / Structural racialism in modern architectural theory / Race and miscegenation in early twentieth-century Mexican architecture / Modern architecture and racial eugenics at the Esposizione Universale di Roma / The invention of indigenous architecture / Erecting the skyscraper, erasing race / Modeling race and class : architectural photography and the U.S. Gypsum Research Village, 1952-1955 / Race and tropical architecture : the climate of decolonization and "Malayanization" / "Compartmentalized world" : race, architecture, and colonial crisis in Kenya and London / Style, race, and a mosque of the "Òyìnbó Dúdú" (White-Black) in Lagos Colony, 1894 / Black and blight / And thus not glowing brightly : Noah Purifoy's junk modernism / Open architecture, rightlessness, and citizens-to-come / Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson -- Mabel O. Wilson -- Peter Minosh -- Reinhold Martin -- Addison Godel -- Charles L. Davis II -- Joanna Merwood-Salisbury -- Irene Cheng -- Luis E. Carranza -- Brian L. McLaren -- Kenny Cupers -- Adrienne Brown -- Dianne Harris -- Jiat-Hwee Chang -- Mark Crinson -- Adedoyin Teriba -- Andrew Herscher -- Lisa Uddin -- Esra Akcan.
"Although race--a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination--has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century. Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism. By analyzing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery, colonialism, and inequality--from eighteenth-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing projects for immigrants--'Race and Modern Architecture' challenges, complicates, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress."--
9780822987413
Architecture and race--History.
Architecture and society--History.
Architecture, Modern.
Electronic Books.
NA2543 / .R334 2020