Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness

Power by Design

Aaron White editor Dijana Omeragić Apostolski editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publishing:28th Feb '25

£145.00

This title is due to be published on 28th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness cover

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.

ISBN: 9781032661193

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

192 pages