Building Character : The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style Paperback / softback
by Charles L. Davis
Part of the Culture Politics & the Built Environment series
Paperback / softback
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In the 19th-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 geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style.
In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists face=Calibri>- Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze face=Calibri>- to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:28/12/2021
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- ISBN:9780822966821
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:28/12/2021
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- ISBN:9780822966821
