Dark Space
Subtitle: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Published: Feb 23, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781941332139
Description: 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 clicȟs to communicate significance, demonstrating "Africanisms" through form and symbolismbut 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. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Source title: Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity