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Race and Modern Architecture A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
Title
Race and Modern Architecture A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present / edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson.
ISBN
0822987414
9780822987413
082294605X
9780822946052
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 438 pages) : illustrations.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 American Studies
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete
Project MUSE - 2020 Global Cultural Studies
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 11, 2020
Series
Culture, politics, and the built environment
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-421) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson
Notes on the Virginia capitol : nation, race, and slavery in Jefferson's America / Mabel O. Wilson
American architecture in the black Atlantic : William Thornton's design for the United States Capitol / Peter Minosh
Drawing the color line : silence and civilization from Jefferson to Mumford / Reinhold Martin
From "terrestrial paradise" to "dreary waste" : race and the Chinese garden in European eyes / Addison Godel
Henry Van Brunt and white settler colonialism in the Midwest / Charles L. Davis II
The "new birth of freedom" : the Gothic revival and the aesthetics of abolitionism / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Structural racialism in modern architectural theory / Irene Cheng
Race and miscegenation in early twentieth-century Mexican architecture / Luis E. Carranza
Modern architecture and racial eugenics at the Esposizione Universale di Roma / Brian L. McLaren
The invention of indigenous architecture / Kenny Cupers
Erecting the skyscraper, erasing race / Adrienne Brown
Modeling race and class : architectural photography and the U.S. Gypsum Research Village, 1952-1955 / Dianne Harris
Race and tropical architecture : the climate of decolonization and "Malayanization" / Jiat-Hwee Chang
"Compartmentalized world" : race, architecture, and colonial crisis in Kenya and London / Mark Crinson
Style, race, and a mosque of the "Òyìnbó Dúdú" (White-Black) in Lagos Colony, 1894 / Adedoyin Teriba
Black and blight / Andrew Herscher
And thus not glowing brightly : Noah Purifoy's junk modernism / Lisa Uddin
Open architecture, rightlessness, and citizens-to-come / Esra Akcan.
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