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Books

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America How American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studies Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is an urgent call for architects to accept the challenge of reconceiving and reconstructing our built environment rather than continue giving shape to buildings, infrastructure and urban plans that have, for generations, embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States.
Call Number: NA738 .N5 R43 2021
The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers. The book traces three recurring themes in Western accounts of Japanese architecture from the reopening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: a wish to see Western architectural theories reflected in Japanese buildings; efforts to integrate elements of Japanese architecture into Western buildings; and a desire to connect contemporary Japanese architecture with Japanese tradition.
Publication Date: 2021
Paths to Prison: On the Architecture of Carcerality Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture.
Publication Date: 2020
Buildings Used: Human Interactions with Architecture Buildings Used takes the reader on an exploration into the impact of use on buildings and users. While most histories and theories of architecture focus on a building's conception, design, and realization, this book argues that its identity is formed after its completion through use; and that the cultural and psychological effects of its use on those inhabiting it are profound.
Publication Date: 2020
Preservation and Social Inclusion The preservation enterprise helps fashion the physical contours of memory in public space, and thus has the power to curate a multidimensional and inclusive representation of societal values and narratives. Increasingly, the field of preservation is being challenged to consider questions of social inclusion, of how multiple publics are--or are not--represented in heritage decision-making, geographies, and governance structures.
Call Number: NA105 .P74 2020
Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb: A Modern Architect’s Sense of Place This book follows Henry Klumb's life in architecture from Cologne, Germany to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island, Klumb was a one-time German immigrant, a moderately successful designer, and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as Puerto Rico's most prolific, locally well-known and celebrated modern architect. In addition to becoming a leading figure in Latin American modern architecture, Klumb also became one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most accomplished protégés, and an architect with a highly attuned social and environmental consciousness.
Publication Date: 2020
Anthropology for Architects: Social Relations and the Built Environment What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the choices that designers have to make o whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis o and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions.
Call Number: NA2543 .A58 L83 2020
Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community Explores over forty works by Black architects and their impact in the Black community. A wide variety of projects are featured, from residences of affluent African Americans, to historic churches, to memorials and museums of Black culture and history.
Call Number: NA738.N5 W45 2019
The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and other countries. The book brings together eminent and emerging scholars and practitioners to discuss and compare major projects and design approaches, to reflect on the main issues and debates, while enhancing theoretical understandings of contemporary Indigenous architecture.
Publication Date: 2018
The Black Skyscraper The Black Skyscraper provides a detailed account of how scale and proximity shape our understanding of race.
Publication Date: 2017
Whose Tradition?: Discourses on the Built Environment In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?
Call Number: NA2543 .S6 W498 2017
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History & Culture Mabel O. Wilson explores how the "four pillars" of the museum's mission shaped its powerful structure, and she teases out the rich cultural symbols and homages layered into the design of the building and its surrounding landscape.
Call Number: NA6700 .W37 W55 2016
New Architecture on Indigenous Lands With close attention to details of design, questions of tradition, and cultural issues, and through interviews with designers and their Native clients, the authors provide an in-depth introduction to the new Native architecture in its many guises--and a rare chance to appreciate its aesthetic power.
Call Number: NA2543 .A58 M35 2013

Articles and Journals

Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum Buildings & Landscapes examines the built world-houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys—churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls—that make up the spaces that most people experience every day.

Mortice, Z. (2020). A seat at the table: To design affordable housing in African American neighborhoods, architects navigate class, race, identity, and community in a privatized system. But can things get better?. Architect, 109(2), 50–53.