Racial Evidence

"Our four-year project to research and compile the forthcoming volume Race and Modern Architecture, a collection of nineteen essays by distinguished scholars who explore the critical role of race in architectural discourse from the Enlightenment to the present, has raised several important questions about the methods historians employ and the archives we mine to write histories of architecture. In spite of the recent global turn in the discipline, many architectural historians still ignore the constitutive importance of race within modernity..."

Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis, II, and Mabel O. Wilson. "Racial Evidence," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol 76, No 4, (2017), 440–442.