Format:
ix, 438 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karte, Pläne
ISBN:
9780822966593
Series Statement:
Culture, politics, and the built environment
Content:
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 offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century. Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism. By analyzing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery, colonialism, and inequality-from eighteenth-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing projects for immigrants-'Race and Modern Architecture' challenges, complicates, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress
Note:
"(...) a symposium in the spring of 2016 at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation that opened with the roundtable "Critical Dialogues on Race and Modern Architecture" before turning to a series of paper presentations. These presentations served as the foundations for the chapters of this book" (Acknowledgments)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8229-8741-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Architektur
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Ethnische Gruppe
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Rassentheorie
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Nationalkunst
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Indigenes Volk
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Geschichte 1750-
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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