Charles L. Davis II, Katherine Holliday, and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury. Rewriting American Architecture: Contesting the Myths of National Culture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2026) Table of Contents I am happy to announce the publication of a book that examines the racial discourses of American Architecture historiography. This research follows up on the Americanist themes of Race and […]
This is a reposting of the second part of a conversation from the Unlearning Workshop series organized by the Central New York Urban Humanities Working Group, Dec 9, 2020. Here is a link to the original posting on the Platform website. For Part I follow this link. At the time, “Unlearning” was the critical label […]
(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. […]
Race & Architecture 