04463oam 2200877I 450 991096996620332120240102235717.09780822966821082296682497808229866380822986639(OCoLC)1117708822(OCoLC)1241900886(OCoLC)on1117708822(MiAaPQ)EBC5892587(CKB)4100000009184993(Perlego)3061379(EXLCZ)99410000000918499320190909d2019 uy 0engurcnu---unuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBuilding character the racial politics of modern architectural style /Charles L. Davis IIPittsburgh, Pa. :University of Pittsburgh Press,[2019]1 online resource (xi, 275 pages)Culture, politics, and the built environment9780822945550 082294555X Includes chapter notes (pages 235-254), bibliographical references (pages 255-264), and index.Part I. The Aryan character of alpine architecture. Campfires in the salon ; Beyond the primitive hut – Part II. The whiteness of American architecture. The search for an American architecture ; When public housing was white – Conclusion. Race, nature, and nation in postwar American architecture.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.Culture, politics, and the built environment.Architecture and raceHistory19th centuryArchitecture and raceHistory20th centuryArchitecture and societyHistory19th centuryArchitecture and societyHistory20th centuryArchitecturePsychological aspectsDemocracy and architectureARCHITECTURE / GeneralbisacshArchitecture and racefast(OCoLC)fst00813570Architecture and societyfast(OCoLC)fst00813574ArchitecturePsychological aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00813504Democracy and architecturefast(OCoLC)fst01737539History.fastArchitecture and raceHistoryArchitecture and raceHistoryArchitecture and societyHistoryArchitecture and societyHistoryArchitecturePsychological aspects.Democracy and architecture.ARCHITECTURE / GeneralArchitecture and race.Architecture and society.ArchitecturePsychological aspects.Democracy and architecture.720.89720.1/03720.103Davis Charles L.II150958N$TN$TN$TP@UOCLCFJSTORSFBYDXITOCLTXIOCLCOQGKBOOK9910969966203321Building character4361521UNINA