(I want to thank Routledge for permitting me to republish the Foreword to Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness: Power by Design (Routledge, 2025) on my academic blog. You can find both a hardcopy and ebook’s of this text both here and here. Many thanks to teh book’s editors, Dijana Omeragić Apostolski and Aaron White, for […]
‘The Black Home as Public Art’ examines different traditions in the Black canon of architecture at UT Austin this fall [This page is reposted from Bustler, a subsidiary of Archinect. Thanks for Josh Niland for reporting on this exhibit in August.] By Josh Niland – Friday, Aug 30, 2024 This fall at the UT Austin School of […]
(This essay was published in Weiss/Manfredi’s monograph Drifting Symmetries (Park Books, 2024), 272. I want to thank the architects and the publishers for giving me permission to repost it on my personal website.) Standard architectural histories of postwar Harlem are usually illustrated by the vast range of buildings produced by top-down urban renewal policies or […]
(This book review was published with Places Journal as a part of their Bookshelf series. I would like to thank the editors of Places for giving me permission to repost it on my personal website.) Najha Zigbi-Johnson’s edited volume, Mapping Malcolm, re-examines the scholarship and legacy of Malcolm X using the analytical lenses of Black Geography and […]
“Chronograms of Architecture” is an exhibition organized by Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House and e-flux Architecture with the Architectural Association. It began with a simple prompt – What is the contemporary relevance of Charles Jencks’ evolutionary diagram of architecture culture, first published in the 1970s (and revisited at several points in the twentieth century) […]
I recently participated in an interview at the Claridge House hotel in Chicago to discuss the contents of my new book Building Character with David Huber, the producer and host of the podcast Interstitial. Interstitial is “a show about space and the consequences of our designs.” It is the first series offered by the online […]
{“type”:”block”,”srcClientIds”:[“93ce2659-4254-4812-97c5-251c813d30d0″],”srcRootClientId”:””}The Toron A-frame is an affordable housing prototype that hybridizes prominent features of African and European architectural typologies to formalize the cultural complexities of the African American experience. It is envisioned as a contemporary form of developer housing that will contributed to the revitalization of segregated black communities in Rust-Belt cities across the United States. […]
Charles Davis. Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) Table of Contents Introduction – The Racialization of Architectural Character in the Long Nineteenth Century Part I: The Aryan Character of Alpine Architecture 1. Campfires in the Salon: Viollet-le-Duc and the Modernization of the Aryan Hut 2. Beyond the […]
For the last two years, the students at Cornell University’s School of Art, Architecture and Planning have selected guest speakers to address topics of contemporary interest. These events are held on the wooden floor portion of the L. P. Kwee Studios in the OMA addition of Milstein Hall. I was invited by the Ph.D. students […]
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