TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Charles L.,II
AU  - Davis,Charles L.
TI  - Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style / 
T2  - Culture Politics and the Built Environment Ser
SN  - 9780822986638
AV  - NA2543.R37 D38 2019
U1  - 720.1/03 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - [Place not identified]
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Architecture and race
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Racialization of Architectural Character in the Long Nineteenth Century -- Part I. The Aryan Character Of Alpine Architecture -- 1. Campfires In The Salon: Viollet-le-Duc and the Modernization of the Aryan Hut -- 2. Beyond The Primitive Hut: Gottfried Semper and the Material Embodiment of Germanic Character -- Part II. The Whiteness Of American Architecture -- 3. The Search For An American Architecture: Louis Sullivan and the Physiognomic Translation of American Character -- 4. When Public Housing Was White: William Lescaze and the Americanization of the International Style -- Conclusion: Race, Nature, and Nation in Postwar American Architecture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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