Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style
(Part of the Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series)
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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:292 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"
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