African American architects : embracing culture and building urban communities / Melvin L. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Melvin L., author.

Contributor:

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

African Americans.

Social aspects.

African American architecture.

History.

African American architects.

African American architects--20th century--19th century--History.

African American architects--21st century.

African American architecture--History.

Architecture--African Americans--Social aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

171 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Katherine Williams, [2020]

Contents:

Introduction: Whose architects will "tell our story"? And help us build our communities

Global antiquity to post-reconstruction in America

Booker T. Washington creates America's Black architects at Tuskegee institute, 1892-1919

The Harlem renaissance: missed connections, 1919-1929

Howard University: "A gentleman's profession," 1919-1951

An early short first-draft personal memoir: 1944-2019

African American architects in current practice (1991): The Jack Travis book revisited, 2018

Four firms: three canaries and one unicorn

Three Washington DC firms as national bellwethers

Black America must build something! ...One million new housing units by 2030

New business models for architectural practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9781734496000

1734496002

OCLC:

1164142509