Dark space : architecture, representation, black identity / Mario Gooden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gooden, Mario, author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and race--United States.

Architecture and race.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

United States.

Illustrated books.

Physical Description:

137 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2016]

Summary:

This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and clicȟs to communicate significance, demonstrating "Africanisms" through form and symbolismbut there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of "African American architecture," and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space. -- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Made in America

There is no such thing as African American architecture

Architecture liberation theology

Space as praxis as identity

The problem with African American museums

(Black) sexuality and space: the body and the gaze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781941332139

1941332137

OCLC:

929864319

Publisher Number:

99970978542