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Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

Gooden, Mario

Paperback

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 1941332137
ISBN13: 9781941332139
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Published: Feb 23 2016
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and clichés to communicate significance, demonstrating Africanisms through form and symbolism--but there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of African American architecture, and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.

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