Rewriting American architecture contesting the myths of national culture edited by Charles L. Davis II, Kathryn E. Holliday, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charles L. Davis, II

Contributor:

Davis, Charles L., II, editor.

Holliday, Kathryn E., editor.

Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and race--United States.

Architecture and race.

Architectural criticism--United States.

Architectural criticism.

Architecture--United States--Historiography.

Architecture.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Indians of North America--Social conditions.

Indians of North America.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Political aspects--United States.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

University of Texas Press, 2026.

Austin University of Texas Press 2026

Summary:

"Examines contested borders, sites of Indigenous agency, the production of architecture through Black institutions and intellectual traditions, and transnationalism to question the propagandas of our own historiographies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction / Charles L. Davis II, Kathryn E. Holliday and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

Spatializing the American architectural profession in the nineteenth century / Kathryn E. Holliday

Vernacular professionalism : rural home economics and the racial contract of expertise / Athanasiou Geolas

A cattle brand and a cattle ranch : land, race, and power in architectural history / Kathryn E. O'Rourke

Slavery and sovereignty in stone : the Mason family of Austin, Texas / Tara A. Dudley

Grand narratives in Black : The architectural histories of John Marrant, Robert Benjamin Lewis, and Martin Delaney / Bryan E. Norwood

The Black parti : reinterpreting African American placemaking as design ideation / Andrea Roberts

Identifying the religio-racial aesthetics of AME church design, 1876-1920 / Melanee C. Harvey-Fryar

Demolishing historic architecture : Black activists' crusade against the one-room cabin in the early Jim Crow era / Whitney Nell Stewart

Border crossing : architecture in Brownsville, Texas, and Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas, as a case study / Stephen Fox

Aesthetic imperialism in the Asia-Pacific : the coastal politics of Bernard Maybeck's architectural practice / Charles L. Davis II

Mahogany and the locations of American architecture / Jonah Rowen

Building an Evangelical utopia : missionaries and the racial destiny of the United States in the "Near East" / Yasmina El Chami

The apple of discord : free labor, sectionalism, and anglo-assimilation in Olmsted's agricultural colleges / Maura Lucking

Confronting assimilation : the interplay between Očéti Ŝakówiŋ and settler spatialities in Dakota Territory, 1883-1888 / Katherine Solomonson

Designed assimilation : the architecture of federal Indian boarding schools / Anjelica S. Gallegos

The Native American ranch house : dialectics of architecture, race, and land in southern California, 1850-1935 / Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió

Jefferson's ashes and architecture's racial dialectic / Peter Minosh

Ordering things : ethnology, empire, and everything else at the Library of Congress / Diana Martinez

Chicago frame : evolution, ethnology, and the idea of the first skyscraper / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

"Americans" and others : a prehistory of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonia / Joseph M. Watson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill; viewed August 27, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Rewriting American architecture.

ISBN:

9781477334188

1477334181

9781477334195

147733419X

OCLC:

1605653958

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