Early Modern Architecture And Whiteness Power By Design

Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical aesthetic epistemological and ontological hierarchies this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period. What was architecture’s role in race-making constructions of whiteness and processes of othering more generally? How was whiteness architecturally questioned reinforced conceptualized practiced and materialized? And how did whiteness intersect with categories such as class nation gender beauty hygiene and health? In examining these questions this volume explores the ways in which premodern critical race studies allow us to reimagine the boundaries and possibilities of architectural research design and practice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in architectural history art history early modern studies and the history of race. |Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness Power by Design