Sites Unseen
William A. Gleason
Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about American culture, history, politics, and—although we have not yet understood this clearly—race relations. This rich and copiously illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture.
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T.Bonner Jr.
Choice
[The] book promises to invigorate critical conversations in the interdisciplinary study of literature and architecture.
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Like the work of Dell Upton,Sites Unseenintertwines the study of vernacular architecture and social history; it brings an altogether original perspective to the subject of the imprint of ... Read more