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Building character : the racial politics of modern architectural style /
In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of "race" and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Culture, politics, and the built environment.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the racialization of architectural character in the long nineteenth century
- Part I. The Aryan character of Alpine architecture ; Campfires in the salon : Viollet-le-Duc and the modernization of the Aryan hut
- Beyond the primitive hut : Gottfried Semper and the material embodiment of Germanic character
- Part II. The whiteness of American architecture ; The search for an American architecture : Louis Sullivan and the physiognomic translation of American character
- When public housing was white : William Lescaze and the Americanization of the International Style
- Conclusion : race, nature, and nation in postwar American architecture.