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Race and modern architecture : a critical history from the enlightenment to the present /

"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 of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cheng, Irene (Irene Chun-I) (Editor ), Davis, Charles L., II (Editor ), Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
Colección:Culture, politics, and the built environment.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.