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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Charles L., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Culture, politics, and the built environment.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.