Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style

by Charles L. Davis and Charles L. Davis II

Book Overview

In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of "race" and "style" as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822966824
• ISBN13: 9780822966821
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"