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ARTS 473 - Deconstructing Whiteness in Modern Architecture


Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4HU

This course examines American architecture’s place in the set of cultural, economic, and material phenomena that configure the social imaginary that we call racial whiteness. Drawing upon critical theory, postcolonial theory, and whiteness studies we will reexamine the history of American architecture and urbanism through the lens of race. What racial precepts did iconic American architects - Thomas Jefferson, H.H. Richardson, Frank Lloyd Wright - embed within their formal expressions of liberal nationalism? Our object will be an archeology of the present: we will examine notions and practices of whiteness institutionalized in infrastructure, urbanism, housing, and landscape that constitute a spatial politics.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. Minosh
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
ARTS 299 and instructor concsent


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