Irene Cheng is an architectural historian and associate professor at the California College of the Arts.
"Race and Modern Architecture challenges the suppression of
race in canonical histories of modern architecture, revealing the
discipline's foundation on hierarchies of racial difference, its
absorption of racial thought, and the racial origins of modernism's
narrative of universalism and progress. These incisive essays
resonate beyond architectural history and reflect on the
inextricable intertwining of race and modernism." --Patricia
Morton, University of California, Riverside
"Race and Modern Architecture is a pioneering contribution
and will guide scholars, educators, and students for years in
better interpreting and illuminating the hidden histories of race
in Western architecture. Carefully filling a lacuna in historical
knowledge and methodology, this edited history will help to build
complex and long-due conversations." --Arris
"For practitioners, this carefully edited history may fill in gaps
in historical knowledge and illuminate racial injustices playing
out in contemporary cities. Anyone interested in beginning these
difficult conversations will find this book invaluable." --Canadian
Architect
"In looking at the history of architecture as a history of
racialized cultures, seemingly everywhere, this volume makes a
major contribution to the literature." --CHOICE
"The volume . . . could hardly have come at a more appropriate
time, as discussions of systemic racism in the United States spread
from the classroom to the streets, from the streets to the halls of
government. . . . the essays are equally strong, based upon
significant archival and on-the-ground scholarship, with vigorous,
fresh arguments." --The Plan Journal
"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." --Lee Bey, author of Southern Exposure:
The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side
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