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Books

The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design In this ground-breaking new book, Fleur Watson unveils the emergence of the 'new curator'. Instead of exhibiting finished works or artefacts, the rise of 'performative curation' provides a space where experimental methods for encountering design ideas are being tested.
Publication Date: 2022
Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of "development" after World War II.
Publication Date: 2022
Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial "This anthology collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture, that is informed by postcolonial theory and its contemporary derivatives such as posthumanism. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize that canon using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks it asks, what might a genuinely 'global' history of architectural modernism begin to look like?"
Publication Date: 2022
Museums and the Act of Witnessing Museums and the Act of Witnessing examines how representations of traumatic histories and the legacies of the twentieth century in museums and heritage sites across the world shape political, social and cultural identities. Drawing on an interdisciplinary analysis of a variety of museum exhibitions around the globe, the book demonstrates how the narrative of 'witnessing' has shaped representation of war, genocide, repression and violence.
Publication Date: 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
The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped American Landscape In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment.
Publication Date: 2021
Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy Critique of Architecture offers a renewed and radical theorization of the relations between capital and architecture. It explicates the theoretical gymnastics through which architecture legitimates its services to neoliberalism, examines the discipline's production of platforms for happily compliant consumers, and challenges its entrepreneurial self-image.
Publication Date: 2021
Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design In Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Ginger Nolan uncovers an enduring relationship between "the savage" and the development of technology and its wide-ranging impact on society, including in the fields of architecture and urbanism, the industrial arts, and digital design.
Publication Date: 2021
Antiblackness Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools.
Publication Date: 2021
The Ethics of Architecture The Ethics of Architecture offers a short and approachable scholarly introduction to a timely question: in a world of increasing population density, how does one construct habitable spaces that promote social goals like health, happiness, environmental friendliness, and justice?
Publication Date: 2021
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
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism Laura E. Gómez, a leading expert on race in America, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and are being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive racial identity. And the catalyst for this emergent identity, she argues, has been the ferocity of anti-Latino racism.
Publication Date: 2020
Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present Race and Modern Architecture challenges us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism.
Publication Date: 2020
Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of modern theorists to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.
Publication Date: 2019
World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History World Architecture provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey of the field. Each chapter is organized chronologically and focuses on three unique architectural cultures, simultaneously providing instructors with flexibility and offering students a comprehensive method forunderstanding and appreciating the history, cultural significance, beauty, and diversity of architecture from around the world.
Call Number: NA200 .I54 2019
The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century.
Publication Date: 2019
W. E. B. du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is the first complete publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's groundbreaking charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Famed sociologist, writer, and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois fundamentally changed the representation of Black Americans with his exhibition of data visualizations at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Beautiful in design and powerful in content, these data portraits make visible a wide spectrum of African American culture, from advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery.
Publication Date: 2018
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery.
Publication Date: 2018
Reclaiming the Black Past In this wide-reaching and timely book, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie argues that public knowledge and understanding of black history, including its historical icons, has been shaped by institutions and individuals outside academic ivory towers.
Call Number: E184.65 .D345 2018
A State-By-State History of Race and Racism in the United States Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states.
Publication Date: 2018
Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period.
Publication Date: 2017
The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem Brian Goldstein traces Harlem's widely noted "Second Renaissance" to a surprising source: the radical 1960s social movements that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny.
Call Number: HT177 .N5 G65 2017
Black Feminist Archaeology Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought and research for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve contemporary historical archaeology.
Publication Date: 2017
Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the US has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus, it was a subject of fierce debate. This book examines the opposition to discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public figures in America.
Publication Date: 2016
Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance Combining an historical survey of racial discourse with new readings resulting from advanced semiotic techniques doubling as spatial arrangements, Architecture in Black is an important contribution to studies of the racial in Western thought and its impact on architecture, space and time.
Publication Date: 2016
Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora.
Call Number: NA2543 .R37 G66 2016
A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world. The book combines the latest scholarship about the indigenous past with an environmental history approach covering issues of climate, geology, and biology, so that you'll see the relationship between urban and rural in a new, more inclusive way.
Call Number: NA2543 .S6 C349 2016
The Making of Asian America: A History The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.
Call Number: E184 .A75 L43 2015
Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues to resonate today.
Call Number: NA2543 .R37 H37 2013
Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Call Number: E185.53 .A1 W55 2012
Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture These eighteen essays, including several case studies, offer convincing evidence of a spatial turn in American studies. They argue for a re-visioning of American culture as a history of place-making and the instantiation of meaning in structures, boundaries, and spatial configurations.
Publication Date: 2009
The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music Architecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as Craig L. Wilkins observes, that diary includes far too few narratives of the diverse cultures in U.S. society. Wilkins states that the discipline of architecture has a resistance to African Americans at every level, from the startlingly small number of architecture students to the paltry number of registered architects in the United States today. Working to understand how ideologies are formed, transmitted, and embedded in the built environment, Wilkins deconstructs how the marginalization of African Americans is authorized within the field of architecture.He then outlines how activist forms of expression shape and sustain communities, fashioning an architectural theory around the site of environmental conflict constructed by hip-hop culture. Wilkins places his concerns in a historical context, and also offers practical solutions to address them.
Call Number: NA2543 .R37 W55 2007
Technology and the African-American Experience Race and technology are two of the most powerful motifs in American history, but until recently they have not often been considered in relation to each other. This collection of essays examines the intersection of the two in a variety of social and technological contexts, pointing out, as the subtitle (borrowed from Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 work Early American Technology) puts it, the "needs and opportunities for study."
Publication Date: 2004

Articles and Journals

Architectural Histories Architectural Histories is the international, blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the EAHN that creates a space where historically grounded research into all aspects of architecture and the built environment can be made public, consulted, and discussed.
Architecture and Culture Architecture and Culture, the international award winning, peer-reviewed journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, investigates the relationship between architecture and the culture that shapes and is shaped by it.
The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice is a journal for all those that investigate, conserve and manage the historic environment.

Issues in Preservation Policy
Preservation and Social Inclusion issue; published by Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia University)

NESS Magazine. (2021). MoMA’s reconstructions: Architecture and blackness in America.

Deem Journal. (2020). Sepake Angiama on architecture, unlearning, and how to be together.

Chenier, C. (2018). Protecting Black Culture in this New, New Orleans. NOIR 'N NOLA.

Canadian Centre for Architecture. (2017). Can there be a global architectural history today? Presentations by Kenneth Frampton, Esra Akcan, and Mark Jarzombek. A History of References.

McGuigan, C. (2016). Architecture and the history of race. Architectural Record, 204(10), 21.

Zandi-Sayek, S. (2014). The Unsung of the Canon: Does a Global Architectural History Need New Landmarks?. ABE Journal, 6.

Gürel, M., & Anthony, K. (2006). The Canon and the Void: Gender, Race, and Architectural History Texts. Journal of Architectural Education, 59(3), 66-76.

Online Resources

African American Studies: Magazine Archives
The Ohio University Libraries provides a comprehensive list of digitized magazine collections that are freely available online. Titles include Ebony, Jet Magazine, Black Panther Newspaper, and more.
Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
"The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive seeks to enhance what we know about Black craftspeople by telling both a spatial story and a historically informed story that highlights the lives of Black craftspeople and the objects they produced. The first and second phases of this project focus on Black craftspeople living and laboring in the eighteenth-century South Carolina Lowcountry and mid-nineteenth century Tennessee."
Black Reconstruction Collective
"The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) provides funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. The BRC is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design, and academia."

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
1,303 sources with 1,210 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.

Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive (CAUSEWAY)
"This project aims to preserve websites devoted to the related topics of architecture, urban fabric, community development activism, public space and sustainability in order to guarantee the continuing availability of these important but potentially ephemeral documents for researchers and scholars."
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"The Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive (CAUSEWAY) is a joint initiative by the art and architecture librarians at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale universities, and the universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation."
The Inclusive Historian's Handbook
"This dynamic reference source supports inclusive and equity-focused historical work in public settings by sharing a knowledge base that invites more people to engage in history projects."
What is an Antiracist Architectural History?
This roundtable shares ideas for teaching anti-racist architectural history derived from the teacher-to-teacher workshop "Can We Teach an Antiracist Architectural History?" (July 17, 2020) and puts forward some preliminary thoughts on what constitutes an antiracist architectural history.

Streaming Media

Folkstreams
Folkstreams is a National Preserve of American Folklore Films. Documentaries focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different kinds of communities.

HistoryMakers This link opens in a new window
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is the largest African American oral video history archive in the world. [CMU only]

Architecture: SoA Race & Inclusion Resources: History & Culture

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