Reading Lists

Anti-Racism Action in Universities

Genna Kalvaitis — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:03:42 +0000

Week 16

Anti-Racism Action in Universities

October 30, 2020

Required readings

91˿��Ƶ Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism 2020-2025.

Call for Action against Systemic Racism at the School of Architecture, from GASA and ASA.

Race, Green Space, and the Limits of Design

Talha Awan — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 04:44:44 +0000

Week 20

Race, Green Space, and the Limits of Design

Required readings

Wolch, Jennifer R., Jason Byrne, and Joshua P. Newell. "Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’." Landscape and Urban Planning 125 (2014): 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.017

Indigenous Healing

Christopher Clarke McQueen and Rachel Law — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:19:27 +0000

Week 19

Indigenous Healing

Required readings

Garrett, Michael Tlanusta, Edil Torres-Rivera, Michael Brubaker, Tarrell Awe Agahe Portman, Dale Brotherton, Cirecie West-Olatunji, William Conwill, and Lisa Grayshield. “Crying for a Vision: The Native American Sweat Lodge Ceremony as Therapeutic Intervention.” Journal of Counseling & Development 89, no. 3 (2011): 318–25.

Refugees as >

Jugal Patel — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:54:40 +0000

Week 18

Refugees as >

Required readings

Ek, Richard. “Giorgio Agamben and the Spatialities of the Camp: An Introduction.” Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography 88, no. 4 (2006): 363–86.

Hanafi, Sari, and Taylor Long. “Governance, Governmentalities, and the State of Exception in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon.” Journal of Refugee Studies 23, no. 2 (2010): 134–59.

Race in the 19th Century

Martin Bressani and Ralph Ghoche — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:17:32 +0000

Week 17

Race in the 19th Century

Required readings

E-E Viollet-le-Duc, Lecture at the Sorbonne given on 4 February 1867, published in the Gazette des architectes et du bâtiment in 1866.

Social Housing and Segregation

Andrew Ashbury and Michael Nugent — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:40:54 +0000

Week 15

Social Housing and Segregation

Required readings

Lipsitz, George. “The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape.” Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 10–23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43323751?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

The Image of the Indigene and Participatory Design

Christina Mahut and Aamirah Nakhuda — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:07:42 +0000

Week 14

The Image of the Indigene and Participatory Design

Required readings

Arboleda, Gabriel. “Beyond Participation.” Journal of Architectural Education 74 (2020): 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2020.1693817

Prison Abolition

Tara Selvaraj — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 06:09:03 +0000

Week 13

Prison Abolition

Required readings

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. “Introduction.” In Golden Gulag : Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, 5-23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/868963692

Architectural Profession

Olivera Neskovic and Zoe Goodman — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:16:24 +0000

Week 12

Architectural Profession

Required readings

Anthony, Kathryn H. “Designing for Diversity: Implications for Architectural Education in the Twenty-First Century.” Journal of Architectural Education 55, no. 4 (2002): 257-67. https://doi.org/10.1162/104648802753657969

Colonial Urbanism and the Question of Race

Michelle Brais — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:32:35 +0000

Week 11

Colonial Urbanism and the Question of Race

Required readings

Bhabha, Homi. "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse." October 28 (1984): 125-33. doi:10.2307/778467.

Monuments and Memory

Keyan Ye — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:38:12 +0000

Week 10

Monuments and Memory

Required readings

Upton, Dell. "Monuments and Crimes." Journal 18 (June 2020). http://www.journal18.org/5022.

Borders, Barbed Wires and Bureaucracy

laura.difiore@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:54:39 +0000

Week 8

Borders, Barbed Wires and Bureaucracy. Architectures of exclusion, control and permanent temporariness

Curated by Christine Aglot Moderated by Allie

Required readings

Davies, Thom, and Arshad Isakjee. "Ruins of Empire: Refugees, Race and the Postcolonial Geographies of European Migrant Camps." Geoforum 102 (2019): 214-17. https://doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.09.031.

Race, Protest and Public Space

Ayca Koseoglu — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:54:31 +0000

Week 7

Race, Protest and Public Space

Moderated by Ali Reza Shahbazin

Required readings

Julia Jacobs. “The ‘Black Lives Matter’ Street Art That Contains Multitudes.” New York Times, July 16, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/design/black-lives-matter-murals-new-york.html.

Critical Whiteness Studies

Laura O’Brien and Aaron Richmond — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:54:21 +0000

Week 6

Critical Whiteness Studies

Required readings

Rankine, Claudia. “On Whiteness.” 1 Hour lecture at Emerson College, Boston. https://www.californiansforthearts.org/antiracism-edit/2020/6/11/claudia-rankine-onwhiteness

Murals, Bikes, Patios

Michelle Brais and Laura Di Fiore — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 19:20:23 +0000

Week 5

Murals, Bikes, Patios: Racism and Bias of White Urbanism and Placemaking Curated by Sarah Gelbard Moderated

Required readings

Summers, Brandi T. “Introduction.” In Black in place: the spatial aesthetics of race in a post-Chocolate City, 1-12. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.