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Race and the Built Environment Guide

Art and Architectural History Articles

Avila, Eric. "East Side Stories: Freeways and Their Portraits in Chicano Los Angeles.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 83-97. Available online via JSTOR.

Bates, Niya. “Race & Architectural History: An Appeal.” Arris: Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 27 (January 1, 2016): 53–57.  Available in print in the RWU Architecture Library.

Cheng, Irene. “Race and Architectural Geometry: Thomas Jefferson's Octagons.” J19 3, no. 1 (2015): 121–30.  Available online via ProQuest.

Cheng, Irene, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O Wilson. “Racial Evidence.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 76, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 440–42.  Available online via SAH and UC Press.

Davis, Charles L., II. “Louis Sullivan and the Physiognomic Translation of American Character.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 76, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 63–81.  Available online via SAH and UC Press.

Davis, Charles L., II. “Viollet-Le-Duc and the Body: The Metaphorical Integrations of Race and Style in Structural Rationalism.” arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 14, no. 4 (January 1, 2010): 341–3348.  Available online via ProQuest.

Edwards, Jay D. "Shotgun: The Most Contested House in America.Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 16, no. 1 (2009): 62-96.  Available online via JSTOR.

Ginsburg, Rebecca. "Freedom and the Slave Landscape.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 36-44. Available online via JSTOR.

Gutman, Marta. “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the WPA Swimming Pools in New York City.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no. 4 (December 1, 2008).  Available online via SAH and UC Press.

Irish, Sharon. "Shadows in the Garden: "The Dark Madonna" Project by Suzanne Lacy.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 98-115. Available online via JSTOR.

Kirchler, Leslie. “Architecture and Landscapes of Segregation: An Historical Look at the Built Environment of Educational Facilities in the United States.” Berkeley Planning Journal 18, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 79–99.  Available online via the Berkeley Planning Journal.

Klee, Jeffrey E. “Service Space in Savannah.” Vernacular Architecture 38 (January 1, 2007): 70–74.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.

Nalbantoḡlu, Gülsüm Baydar. “Toward Postcolonial Openings: Rereading Sir Banister Fletcher’s ‘History of Architecture.’” Assemblage, no. 35 (April 1, 1998): 6-17.  Available online via JSTOR.

Upton, Dell. "Sound as Landscape.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 24-35. Available online via JSTOR.

Van Slyck, Abigail A. "Mañana, Mañana: Racial Stereotypes and the Anglo Rediscovery of the Southwest's Vernacular Architecture, 1890-1920.Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture 5 (1995): 95-108.  Available online via JSTOR.

Varnelis, Kazys. ""We Cannot Not Know History": Philip Johnson's Politics and Cynical Survival.Journal of Architectural Education (1984-) 49, no. 2 (1995): 92-104.  Available online via JSTOR.