Modern architecture

Then we can look at, um, Rome in particular ways as architecture.

Then we can go to the Phoenicians and look at them as architecture or the Incas as architecture." And oftentimes what that did when you look at early architectural history tracks is they, that they produced, uh, social, cultural, racial hierarchies in relationship to the modern architecture and those who are going to lead civilization forward.

And that, that's well documented in things like global architecture.

This is why we produced the book Race and Modern Architecture is to exactly show how from the 18th century onward, the formation of this kind of modern discipline and eventually modern practice of architecture, uh, is situated in particular ways.

What a fantastic way of putting it.

I think that's amazing.

Hi, I'm Peter MacKeith, co-author of Out There, and you are listening to U.S. Modernist Radio.

Mama don't allow no architecture around here.

Mama don't allow no architecture around here.

Welcome to U.S. Modernist Radio, where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world.

I'm Tom Guild.

Right here in Raleigh, North Carolina, like every town, there are buildings mostly lost to history.

But having a building like that vacant is always a problem because if no one's there, you don't notice a leak until it's catastrophic.

Yes.

And I think because I wanted to work on the question of race and architecture, they viewed it as a social issue rather than being willing to explore the discourse of architecture.

And I finally, you know, with the collaborative help of some colleagues, Irene Chang and Charles Davis, worked on a project called Race and Modern Architecture to show, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Architectural discourse is deeply embedded in languages of racialization.

Right.

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Mama don't allow no architecture around here.

Mama don't allow no architecture around here.

Oh, I don't care what mama don't allow, gonna draw mine modern anyhow.

Mama don't allow no architecture around here.

Welcome to U.S. Modernist Radio, where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love and hate modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world.

I'm Tom Guild.