Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture

A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects these designs had on the experience and perception of race.

The author poses the question "why haven't black architects developed a Black Architecture that complements modernist black culture that is rooted in world-class blues, jazz, hip-hop music, and other black aesthetic forms?" Mitchell calls for a bold and inclusive "New (Black) Urbanism."

Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate narratives of "African American architecture" and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.

A definitive volume on racialized landscapes in the United States. While featuring the black/white divide, the book also investigates Chinatowns, Latino landscapes in the Southwest and white suburban landscapes.

Conducts readers through cultural centers and schools, clinics and housing, and even a sugar camp, all while showing how tribal identity is manifested in various distinctive ways.

Offers multiple indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice. Indigenous authors from Aotearoa NZ, Canada, Australia, and the USA explore the making and keeping of places and spaces which are informed by indigenous values and identities.

These essays explore the historic and contemporary effects of race upon the development of the built environment, and examine the myths and realities of America's racial landscapes.

Structural Inequality provides the context to inform and facilitate the necessary conversation on increasing diversity in architecture.

Addresses the intersection of two disparate fields through a lively and diverse collection of essays and projects, including interdisciplinary investigations of literature, social history, home economics, and art history.

Architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky takes a look at the man-made world and concludes that it is just that: made by men and not women.

A new framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of gender and race as well as class. "

A look at how traditional gender roles have influenced architecture and how same-sex desire is creating an entirely new architecture.

Gathers words and projects of leading women thinkers, activists, designers, and builders who have dared to ask, "where are the women?"

Women continue to be very under-represented in the architectural profession, which has become defined by a narrow middle-class, heterosexual, Eurasian male perspective, out of kilter with today's diverse community. This book presents up and coming female architects and designers discussing their work, from local to global, to question what constitutes a feminist practice and to offer an alternative definition of architecture for the 21st century.

A fascinating and often funny look at a period of extraordinary social change coupled with aesthetic invention, Sex and Buildings will change the way we look at the buildings around us.

Women in Architecture is an essential work of reference.The volumes explore four themes: History and Identity; Extraordinary Practice; Wider Influence, and Employment and Education. The collection offers a holistic and non Euro-centric view of women in architecture, with good practice and inspiration from all parts of the world.

A groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities.

This book explores one of the crucial contexts within which the marginal status of disabled people is experienced: the interrelationships between disability, physical access, and the built environment.

Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centered on compliance, it sees disability and ability as creative starting points for the whole design process. It asks the intriguing question: can working from dis/ability actually generate an alternative kind of architectural avant-garde?