Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture

Section 1: Theories of Race and Architecture

1. Environmental Determinism and Racial Supremacy at the Origins of ‘Corrective’ Housing in the British Colonial Context

Nicholas Coetzer

2. Segregated Intimacies: Reading “Race” in the Archives

Swati Chattopadhyay

3. Tropical Whiteness

Patricio del Real

4. Exilic Spaces: Assimilation and Cultural Resilience in Post-War White Australia

Anoma Pieris

5. Spaces of re-routing: Strategic hybrid ethnic space as method

Yat Ming Loo

Section 2: Racialised Spaces 

6. Building Vecinidad: Municipal Black Citizenship in Spanish Colonial Peru

Rachel Sarah O’Toole

7. Black on Black: Maroon spatial experience in Jamaica

Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis

8. Double Imaginations: Race and Cultural Infrastructure in Global Chinatown

Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong

9. Triangulating Death: The Place of the Cemetery in Johannesburg’s Racialised Landscape

Hashim Tarmahomed

10. Racialised Planning: Planning Policies and Ethno-Racial Segregation in Cali, Colombia

Ángela Franco-Calderón

11. Race and Sex (work) in the Modern-Colonial Urban Landscape of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Mariana Llano Valencia

12. The Architecture of Racialised Projection: Exploring the Politics of Israel’s Built Environment

Matan Flum, Haim Yacobi and Kamna Patel

Section 3: Building Race

13. Constructing Whiteness, Vincenzo Scamozzi’s Humoral Villas, and L’Idea della Architettura Universale (1615)

Dijana Omeragić Apostolski

14. Architecture and Race in the Competition for the Palazzo del Littorio in Rome 

Brian L. McLaren 

15. Transatlantic Landscapes of Enslavement

Peter Minosh and Jonah Rowen

16. Ordered Spaces: Classicism and the Construction of Racial Difference in Colonial Singapore

Soon-Tzu Speechley

17. From Africans to Ghanaians, From Europeans to Expatriates: Race and Architectural Labor in Ghana, 1951–66

Łukasz Stanek

18. “Best Places, Best Families": The Architecture of Model Tenements Designed for Black Tenants in Manhattan, 1900-1915

Jessica Larson

19. Spatial Practices of Indigenous Peoples: Challenging the Cultural Adequacy  of Social Housing in Chile

Walter Imilan Ojeda, Carlos Hevia Riera, Jorge Larenas Salas, Ricardo Tapia Zarricueta

Section 4: Unwritten Histories

20. Interfaces Between Ethnic Discourse and Architectural Theory in the Late Soviet Union

Da Hyung Jeong

21. Everyday Tactics of Whiteness in North Africa: Éliane Castelnau’s Professional Manoeuvres in Postcolonial Morocco

Tom Avermaete and Cathelijne Nuijsink

22. Ethel Madison Bailey Furman: Building African American Community in Richmond, Virginia

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

23. Building the Athens of the South: Enslaved Craftspeople in Antebellum Nashville

Rachel Stephens

24. The Architectural Patronage of Two Enslaved Africans in the Premodern Deccan

Banda ʿAnbar and Malik ʿAnbar at Daulatabad

Mohit Manohar

25. Building the Fringes of Empire: Mining Companies, Transnational Experts, Race and Space in Colonial Africa

Beatriz Serrazina

26. Dialogues for white responsibility/response-ability: learning from Guarani Mbya long histories of life maintenance in São Paulo

Thiago Guarani Karai Djekupe, Beatrice Perracini Padovan and Laura Pappalardo

Section 5: Race in Architectural Education and Practice

27. Pedagogy for Others: Howard University, and an inclusive architectural pedagogy in 1970s

Ali Javid and Nigel Westbrook

28. Teaching Community Planning and Systemic Racism with Oral History

Lynne Horiuchi with Hanna Seydel

29. Memorializing Black life and death: contemplative inquiry in interdisciplinary studies

John Anderson and Matthew Wilson

30. Swing Time: The Black House in Cologne, Germany, and the Privilege of Telling Stories

Tazalika M. te Reh

Biography

Felipe Hernández, Ph.D., is a Colombian-born architect who lives and works in the United Kingdom. He serves as an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow Architect at King’s College, Cambridge, where he also holds the position of Director of Studies in Architecture. Notably, he was the first Latin American to direct the Centre for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Cambridge. Currently, he is the Director of the M.Phil. in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS). His research explores the intersection between architecture and urbanism under conditions of 'coloniality', seeking relevant approaches to teaching and practicing architecture mainly in the Americas. He has published extensively on postcolonial/decolonial theory, race and Modern Architecture in Latin America.

Itohan Osayimwese is Chair and Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Urban Studies, and an affiliate faculty member in Africana Studies at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University. Her research analyzes how oppressive political ideologies have instrumentalized architecture, design, and material culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Anglo-Caribbean, and Central Europe between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany (2017), and the editor of German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture (2023).