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Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style
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Winner, 2021 CAAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award | Winner, 2021 On the Brinck Book Award | Shortlist, 2020 MSA First Book Prize
In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed...
In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed...
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