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Race and Modern Architecture
Program Date: July 31, 2020
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Join Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson for a conversation about their new edited volume,
Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). Patricia A. Morton, associate professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside, will moderate the discussion, which will cover the themes of the book, provide background about how it came to be, and offer commentary on what broader lessons it offers architects and historians. This is the inaugural program in SAH's Celebrating the Book series of SAH CONNECTS virtual book talks, and it will be held on the date that SAH will commemorate the 80th anniversary of its founding.
Race and Modern Architecture
challenges the suppression of race in canonical histories of modern architecture, revealing the discipline’s foundation on hierarchies of racial difference, its absorption of racial thought, and the racial origins of modernism’s narrative of universalism and progress. These incisive essays resonate beyond architectural history and reflect on the inextricable intertwining of race and modernism.
—Patricia A. Morton, University of California, Riverside
Irene Cheng
is an architectural historian and associate professor at the California College of the Arts. Her current book project, entitled “The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America" (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press) explores the geometry of architectural projects affiliated with anarchist, socialist, abolitionist, free love, spiritualist, and other radical antebellum movements. She is a co-director of the Race + Modern Architecture Project (R+MAP), an interdisciplinary research group that is exploring the influence of racial discourses on architecture from the Enlightenment to the recent past, and founding principal of Cheng+Snyder, a multidisciplinary design practice that seeks to instigate critical debates about politics, architecture, and the city. With David Gissen, Cheng is the a founding co-director of the Experimental History Project, an initiative of CCA's MAAD-History Theory Experiments (HTX) program.
Charles L. Davis II
is an assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, a current member of the SAH Board of Directors, and the chair of the SAH Race and Architecture Affiliate Group. His book manuscript,
Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style
(University of Pittsburgh, 2019) traces the historical integrations of race and style theory in paradigms of “architectural organicism,” or movements that modeled design on the generative principles of nature. He has published articles and essays in
Architectural Research Quarterly, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Harvard Design Magazine, Log
and
Aggregate
. His current book project, tentatively entitled “Black By Design: An Interdisciplinary History of Making in Modern America” recovers the contributions of black artists in shaping the built environment from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives Matter.
Mabel O. Wilson
is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor at Columbia University GSAPP and a professor in the African American and African Diasporic Studies Department. She is the author of
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture
(2016) and
Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
(University of California Press, 2012). With her practice Studio &, she is a designer/historian on the architectural team for the recently completed Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia.
Patricia A. Morton
is a faculty member in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of
Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris
(MIT Press), which examines the representation of racial hierarchies at a world’s fair intended to celebrate colonialism. Her current project,
Paying for the Public Lif
e, uses work by architect Charles W. Moore to interrogate the formation of publics and counterpublics in the 1960s. A forthcoming article, “Public Life and Public Housing: Charles Moore’s Church Street South,” looks at a public housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, and the racial thinking fundamental to the architect’s vision of a “public life” for Black residents who had been displaced by Urban Renewal. She serves as first vice president of the Society of Architectural Historians.
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