LEADER 04463oam 2200877I 450 001 9910969966203321 005 20240102235717.0 010 $a9780822966821 010 $a0822966824 010 $a9780822986638 010 $a0822986639 035 $a(OCoLC)1117708822$z(OCoLC)1241900886 035 $a(OCoLC)on1117708822 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5892587 035 $a(CKB)4100000009184993 035 $a(Perlego)3061379 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009184993 100 $a20190909d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBuilding character $ethe racial politics of modern architectural style /$fCharles L. Davis II 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pa. :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d[2019] 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) 225 1 $aCulture, politics, and the built environment 311 08$a9780822945550 311 08$a082294555X 320 $aIncludes chapter notes (pages 235-254), bibliographical references (pages 255-264), and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aIn the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of "race" and "style" as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists--Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze--to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles. 410 0$aCulture, politics, and the built environment. 606 $aArchitecture and race$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArchitecture and race$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArchitecture and society$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArchitecture and society$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArchitecture$xPsychological aspects 606 $aDemocracy and architecture 606 $aARCHITECTURE / General$2bisacsh 606 $aArchitecture and race$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00813570 606 $aArchitecture and society$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00813574 606 $aArchitecture$xPsychological aspects$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00813504 606 $aDemocracy and architecture$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01737539 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aArchitecture and race$xHistory 615 0$aArchitecture and race$xHistory 615 0$aArchitecture and society$xHistory 615 0$aArchitecture and society$xHistory 615 0$aArchitecture$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aDemocracy and architecture. 615 7$aARCHITECTURE / General 615 7$aArchitecture and race. 615 7$aArchitecture and society. 615 7$aArchitecture$xPsychological aspects. 615 7$aDemocracy and architecture. 676 $a720.89 676 $a720.1/03 676 $a720.103 700 $aDavis$b Charles L.$cII$0150958 801 0$bN$T 801 1$bN$T 801 2$bN$T 801 2$bP@U 801 2$bOCLCF 801 2$bJSTOR 801 2$bSFB 801 2$bYDXIT 801 2$bOCL 801 2$bTXI 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bQGK 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969966203321 996 $aBuilding character$94361521 997 $aUNINA