Charles Davis II: The Black Space Project | Justice By Design Lecture
In this Justice by Design lecture, Arcus Professor Charles L. Davis II presents the mission and activities of The Black Space Project, an interdisciplinary research unit starting at the University of Texas at Austin. These activities include research collaboration with the National Trust, an exhibit on communal uses of the Black home, and a digital archive on non-licensed Black contributions to the built environment. All of our activities are meant to challenge the artist-architect definition of authorship within the discipline by pluralizing the historiography of Black architectural modernity in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sponsored by the Department of Architecture
About the Speaker
Charles Davis II is associate professor of architectural history and director of the architecture PhD program at UT Austin School of Architecture. He is the co-editor of Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (University of Pittsburgh, 2020) and author of Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (University of Pittsburgh, 2019). His current book project, Putting Black in Place: A Spatial History of Black Architectural Modernity, recovers the overlooked contributions of Black actors in shaping the built environment from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives Matter. It examines the specific role of minority spatial practices in establishing a unique form of Black architectural modernity in the 19th and 20th centuries.
About the Series
Justice by Design is a college-wide lecture series that brings together speakers from across disciplines to address the intersection of social justice and the built environment.
Free + open to the public.
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