Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio

by Carla Jackson Bell (Editor)

Overview

Since the early 1800s, African Americans have designed signature buildings; however, in the mainstream marketplace, African American architects, especially women, have remained invisible in architecture history, theory and practice.

Traditional architecture design studio education has been based on the historical models of the Beaux-Arts and the Bauhaus, with a split between design and production teaching. As the result of current teaching models, African American architects tend to work on the production or technical side of building rather than in the design studio. It is essential to understand the centrality of culture, gender, space and knowledge in design studios.

Space Unveiled　is a significant contribution to the study of architecture education, and the extent to which it has been sensitive to an inclusive cultural perspective. The research shows that this has not been the case in American education because part of the culture remains hidden.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138229280
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/11/2016
Series:	Routledge Research in Architecture
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Carla Jackson Bell, Director of Multicultural Affairs and faculty member, College of Architecture, Design and

Construction, Auburn University

Table of Contents

Introduction and History, 1. African American Education: Lifting the Veil, 2. The Background on Architecture Education, 3. "Booker T. Washington’s Architectual Strategies, 4. Brick Making and the Production of Place at the Tuskegee Institute, 5. The Education of African American Architects: Re-Thinking du Bois’ Principles, "About Us, For Us, and Near Us", 6. 'Blackness': An Architectural Discourse, 7. Once More into the Breech, 8. The Academic Political Economy, 9. Space (Un) Veiled: Tecne as a Means of Promoting Visibility in the Beginning Design Studio, 10. Reality-Based Learning in Design Education, 11. Design Collaborative Learning in Design Studio Education, 12. Piecing Together Place: A Design Process, 13. Making Every Stich Count: Lessons in Naturalistic Feedback, 14. Contested Spaces: Teaching Cultural Competency in the Design of American Cities, 15. Gender and Race in Contemporary Architecture: Reflections on a Seminar Taught for Over Two Decades, 16. NOMA Competition: "Design Action", 17. In Situ: Diversifying Design Education Through Green For Life! – A Community Based Environmental Research, Education and Outreach Project, 18. Working in the Jazz Architectural Workshop, 19. Race and Gender in Architecture Education: A Distance Learning Model, 20. Consensus Imagination: Design Competition in a Non-Studio Setting, 21. On Otherness: Looking at (Different Way of) Inculating Diversity, 22. ‘Inside and Out’: Three Black Women’s Perspectives on Architectural Education in the Ivory Tower