Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis, and Mabel O. Wilson

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.

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press

0.8" x 9.9" x 6.9" / 2.3 lbs

424 pages