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Building Character - The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (Paperback)
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Building Character - The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (Paperback)
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
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In the 19th-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.
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