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Simultaneous with these deaths, systemic racist violence shows itself as part of all of the converging
crises of this moment: the coronavirus pandemic and its attendant economic collapse; climate
change; our ongoing “everyday” crises of police brutality, housing insecurity, lack of access to
healthcare, radically unequal and unjust education and criminal legal systems, and overarching
economic inequality. Each of these sources of oppression in American society has had and is having
massively disproportionate impacts on Black and brown Americans.
Every system, every institution in American society, including the discipline of architecture, is
implicated. The built environment—our public, private, and civic spaces, and the ways we design,
construct, and inhabit them—reifies lopsided power relationships, economic inequality, and thwarted
opportunity. Through inadequately examined design, planning, and land-use decisions; through the
negligent or malevolent location of infrastructure, “renewal,” and noxious uses in poor and minority
neighborhoods; through embodying and failing to challenge the aggrandizement of Whiteness and the
depreciation of Blackness and all other cultures in aesthetic, technological, and historical norms and
values; through our inadequate commitment to helping provide the human right of adequate shelter
and other basic needs, we perpetuate the status quo and the unjust world it has created.
Dismantling and rebuilding these systems and practices—and the very structures of American society
—is not the work of a month or a year; it is work that must engage all of us, immediately, continuously,
for a lifetime.
Paul Lewis, President, Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, and the board and staff of The
Architectural League
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07/07/2020 Statement and Resources on Race and Architecture - The Architectural League of New York
Craig Barton, ed., Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race (Princeton Architectural
Press, 2001)
Adrienne Brown, The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2019)
David Brown and William Williams, Row: Trajectories Through the Shotgun House (Rice School of
Architecture, 2004)
Simone Brown, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Duke University Press, 2015)
Anne Anlin Cheng, Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface (Oxford University Press,
2010)
Irene Cheng, “Race and Architectural Geometry: Thomas Jefferson’s Octagons” J19: The Journal of
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Irene Cheng, Charles L. David, Mabel O. Wilson, Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from
the Enlightenment to the Present (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014
Kimberly Dowdell, “Racism is built into US Cities,” Fast Company, June 2020
Darrell Wayne Fields, Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Thelma Golden, ed, Harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor (Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004)
Mario Gooden, “Appearances and (Non)Erasures: Mapping Confederate Monuments and the Racial
Conditionedness of Liberation,” Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2019
Mario Gooden, Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity (Columbia Books on
Architecture and the City, 2016)
Le Corbusier, “The Spirit Of The Machine, And Negroes In The USA,” When the Cathedrals Were
White, pp. 158-164 (McGraw-Hill, 1964)
Bryan Lee, Jr., “America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress,” Citylab, June 2020
Lesley Lokko, White Papers Black Marks: Architecture, Race, Culture (University of Minnesota Press,
2000)
Joanne Merwood-Salisbury, “Western Architecture: Regionalism and Race in the Inland Architect,”
Chicago Architecture Histories: Revisions and Alternatives, ed. by Charles Waldheim and Katerina
Ruedi Ray (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Vintage, 1992)
Melvin Mitchell, The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and
(Black) Power (iUniverse, 2002)
Jimmy Robert, “Imitation of Lives” , interview with Mario Gooden, Performa 17 Magazine, November
2017
Sarah Schindler, “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of
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Sarah Schindler, Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of
the Built Environment,” Yale Law Journal, April 2015
Sharon Sutton, When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America’s Cities and Universities
(Fordham University Press, 2017)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
Huda Tayob and Suzanne Hall, “Race, Space and Architecture: towards an open-access curriculum”
(London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology, 2019)
Dell Upton, What Can and Can’t be Said: Race Uplift and Monument Building in the Contemporary
South (University of California Press, 2015)
Paul A. Wellington, Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community (2019)
Craig Wilkins, Diversity Among Architects: From Margin to Center (Routledge, 2016)
Craig L. Wilkins, The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music (University
of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Mabel O. Wilson, Begin with the Past: Building the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African
American History and Culture
Mabel O. Wilson, “Black Bodies/White Cities: Le Corbusier in Harlem” ANY: Architecture New York,
No. 16, Whiteness: WHITE FORMS, FORMS OF WHITENESS, 1996
Mabel O. Wilson, Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (University of
California Press, 2012)
Mabel O. Wilson, “White by Design” Among Others: MoMA and Blackness,” ed. by Darby English and
Charlotte Barat (MoMA Publications, 2019)
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Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent at Youtube, Google Play, iTunes
Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee 1989) — Available to rent at Youtube, Google Play, iTunes
Eyes on The Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 (dir. Henry Hampton, 1987) – Available to
purchase at PBS. All interviews from the series are available for free viewing and reading at the
Washington University of St. Louis Film and Media Archive.
Fruitvale Station (dir. Ryan Coogler, 2013) — Available to rent at Youtube, Google Play, iTunes
I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck, 2016) — Available for free viewing at PBS until 6/21/20,
available to rent at Youtube, Google Play, iTunes
Modern Living: Villa Savoye (performance de Gerard & Kelly, 2019) - Leia um artigo da performance de
Alexander Gorlin e assista a um trecho aqui .
Selma (dir. Ava DuVernay, 2014) - Disponível para locação gratuita no YouTube, Google Play, iTunes
para o mês de junho
Os Panteras Negras: Vanguarda da Revolução (dir. Stanley Nelson, 2015) - Disponível para
visualização gratuita na PBS até 04/07/2020, disponível para locação no Youtube, Google Play, iTunes
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