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Salado Creek, Texas, 1918: Thirteen black men stood at attention in
front of gallows erected specifically for their hanging. They had
been convicted of participating in one of America's most infamous
black uprisings, the Camp Logan Mutiny, otherwise known as the 1917
Houston Riots. The mutiny and ensuing riots were carried out by 156
soldiers of the Third Battalion of the all-black 24th US Infantry
Regiment-a unit of the famed Buffalo Soldiers -after members of the
Houston Police Department violently menaced the black soldiers and
members of the local black community. It all took place over a
single night. After a rumor that a corporal had been shot and
killed by the police reached Camp Logan, soldiers immediately made
plans to march on Houston and attack the police force. The first
police casualties occurred when a group of six officers stumbled
upon the entire column of soldiers. After discovering that one of
the men they killed was a captain with the Illinois National guard,
the seriousness of the mutiny hit home. Houston was placed under
martial law, and by morning all of the soldiers were eventually
disarmed or surrendered their weapons. In the wake of those riots,
eleven civilians, five policemen, and four soldiers lay dead. This
incident is one of Houston's most complicated and
often-misrepresented historical events. It shook race relations in
the city and created conditions that sparked a nationwide surge of
wartime racial activism. In the aftermath of the carnage, what was
considered the trial of the century at that time ensued. The trial
resulted in the hanging of thirteen black men, eliciting memories
of slave rebellions. But was justice served? New evidence and
access to historical archives indicate that the courts-martial were
rushed in an attempt to placate an angered white population as well
as military brass. Mutiny of Rage serves to not only retell an
accurate story of the event, but to set the legal record straight
on what really happened.
The International Exposition, Expo Zaragoza 2008, is one of the
greatest international events of the year, featuring large scale
urban projects. With water as the central theme, the building
designs of acclaimed architects Enrique de Teresa, Nieto y
Sobejano, Francisco Mangado, Olano y Mendo Arquitectos, lvaro
Planchuelo, Torres y Martinez Lapea, ACXT and Zaha Hadid hosted the
different events and pavillions. This volume analyses the making of
the architectonic complex and its landscape, critically examining
the meaning and importance of Expo Zaragoza 2008 as a 21st century
model for an urban development strategy. The architectonic pieces
reflect the cultural and social dynamics transforming architecture
today in Spain.
This is a double reprint in a single volume of the books "Housing"
and "Singular Housing", previously published separately, with the
addition of several more recent projects. On the one hand, this
book proposes a purposeful gaze on a number of recent housing
proposals; on the other, it analyses the single-family dwelling
from different and provocative points of view. The first part, more
theoretical in intent, focuses on an exploration of those "project
dynamics" that tend to generate new formal systems associated with
the phenomenon of change taking place in the contemporary city. The
second presents a set of projects and works considered paradigmatic
of the contemporary approach to housing. In addition, three
fundamental chapters - the house as an enclosure, the house as an
artefact and the house as landscape - posit in the form of
projects, quotes and images a whole series of new possibilities in
the architecture of the personal habitat.
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