Dark Space – Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

Mario Gooden

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Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
23 February 2016

Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Black & Asian studies

This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and clichés to communicate significance, demonstrating ""Africanisms"" through form and symbolism-but there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of ""African American architecture,"" and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.

By: Mario Gooden
Imprint: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781941332139
ISBN 10: 1941332137
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 23 February 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mario Gooden is a principal of Huff + Gooden Architects and a Professor of Practice at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) of Columbia University where is also the co-Director of the Global Africa Lab (GAL). He is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a MacDowell Colony Fellow.