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Dark Space – Mario Gooden

Dark Space – Mario Gooden

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on subject
Author
Mario Gooden
Publisher
Columbia University Press, 2016
Code
ARCH-GOOD-1
Details
138 pages, 13.5 × 20.5 cm, English
book softcover
ISBN
9781941332139

Description

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.

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