Aesthetics of Equity Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music

Name: Aesthetics of Equity Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music
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ISBN: 9780816646616

ISBN-10: 0816646619

ISBN-13: 9780816646616

Edition: 2007

Authors: Craig L. Wilkins

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Architecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as Craig L. Wilkins observes, that diary includes far too few narratives of the diverse cultures in U.S. society. Wilkins states that the discipline of architecture has a resistance to African Americans at every level, from the startlingly small number of architecture students to the paltry number of registered architects in the United States today. nbsp; Working to understand how ideologies are formed, transmitted, and embedded in the built environment, Wilkins deconstructs how the marginalization of African Americans is authorized within the field of…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 7.99" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


On the Organization of This Book



Architecture as a Noun



Space-Place



Discipline-Person



Architecture-Thing


Precis



Architecture as a Verb



Space-Action



Discipline-State



Architecture-Motion


Precis


Notes


Index