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Architecture & Race

Week 2

Architecture and Race

Tania Gutiérrez Monroy

Required readings

McInnis, Maurie Dee, and Louis P Nelson, ed.. University of Virginia Press, 2019. Read Chapter 2.

Hurley, Amanda Kolson. “How the critics covered the NMAAHC,” Architect Magazine, 2016.

Further readings

Cheng, Irene, et al., eds. Enlightenment to the Present. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. The introduction is agood overview of the book.

Harris, Dianne. “Seeing the Invisible: Re-examining Race and Vernacular Architecture.” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture13, no. 2 (2006) 96–105.

Upton, Dell. “White and Black Landscapes in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.” Places2,no. 2 (1984).

Ginsburg, Rebecca. “‘Come in the Dark’: The Place of Domestic Workers’ Rooms in Apartheid-Era Johannesburg.” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture8 (2000): 83-100.

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