Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present ( Culture Politics + the Built Environment
Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present ( Culture Politics + the Built Environment
$45.00
Cheng, Irene; Davis II, Charles L.; Wilson, Mabel O.
Pittsburg 2020
SKU: S02753
This book will enlighten many. By exposing how modern architectural discourse and thought have been influenced quite heavily by racism, this critical and important scholarship sheds new light on the built environment. Race and Modern Architecture ultimately reveals how architecture and design have been silent partners in oppression in the United States and around the globe.
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.
424 pp. Pap.
