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"
It is difficult to recall an academic anthology so appropriately
timed and so desperately needed as this volume. . . . Race and
Modern Architecture promises to be a widely consulted text, a
useful resource for architectural scholars and practitioners
looking for a concise introduction to racial frameworks for reading
the built environment as well as for scholars of other disciplines
engaged in the theoretical and methodological debates.-- "Journal
of the Society for Architectural Historians"
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
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
