Building character : the racial politics of modern architectural style /
Davis, Charles L., II.
Building character : the racial politics of modern architectural style / Racial politics of modern architectural style Charles L. Davis II. - 1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) - Culture, politics, and the built environment . - Culture, politics, and the built environment. .
Includes chapter notes (pages 235-254), bibliographical references (pages 255-264) , and index.
Introduction : the racialization of architectural character in the long nineteenth century -- The Aryan character of Alpine architecture ; Campfires in the salon : Viollet-le-Duc and the modernization of the Aryan hut -- Beyond the primitive hut : Gottfried Semper and the material embodiment of Germanic character -- The whiteness of American architecture ; The search for an American architecture : Louis Sullivan and the physiognomic translation of American character -- When public housing was white : William Lescaze and the Americanization of the International Style -- Conclusion : race, nature, and nation in postwar American architecture. Part I. Part II.
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 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--Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze--to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles
9780822986638 (electronic book) 0822986639 (electronic book)
22573/ctvp2f3w5 JSTOR
1800-1999
Architecture and race--History--19th century.
Architecture and race--History--20th century.
Architecture and society--History--19th century.
Architecture and society--History--20th century.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.
Democracy and architecture.
Architecture et race--Histoire--19e siècle.
Architecture et race--Histoire--20e siècle.
Architecture et société--Histoire--19e siècle.
Architecture et société--Histoire--20e siècle.
Architecture--Aspect psychologique.
Démocratie et architecture.
ARCHITECTURE--General.
Architecture and race.
Architecture and society.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.
Democracy and architecture.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
NA2543.R37 / D38 2019 NA2543.S6
720.89 720.1/03
Building character : the racial politics of modern architectural style / Racial politics of modern architectural style Charles L. Davis II. - 1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) - Culture, politics, and the built environment . - Culture, politics, and the built environment. .
Includes chapter notes (pages 235-254), bibliographical references (pages 255-264) , and index.
Introduction : the racialization of architectural character in the long nineteenth century -- The Aryan character of Alpine architecture ; Campfires in the salon : Viollet-le-Duc and the modernization of the Aryan hut -- Beyond the primitive hut : Gottfried Semper and the material embodiment of Germanic character -- The whiteness of American architecture ; The search for an American architecture : Louis Sullivan and the physiognomic translation of American character -- When public housing was white : William Lescaze and the Americanization of the International Style -- Conclusion : race, nature, and nation in postwar American architecture. Part I. Part II.
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 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--Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze--to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles
9780822986638 (electronic book) 0822986639 (electronic book)
22573/ctvp2f3w5 JSTOR
1800-1999
Architecture and race--History--19th century.
Architecture and race--History--20th century.
Architecture and society--History--19th century.
Architecture and society--History--20th century.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.
Democracy and architecture.
Architecture et race--Histoire--19e siècle.
Architecture et race--Histoire--20e siècle.
Architecture et société--Histoire--19e siècle.
Architecture et société--Histoire--20e siècle.
Architecture--Aspect psychologique.
Démocratie et architecture.
ARCHITECTURE--General.
Architecture and race.
Architecture and society.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.
Democracy and architecture.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
NA2543.R37 / D38 2019 NA2543.S6
720.89 720.1/03