Does African-American Architecture Exist?

I decided to organize Black Boxes: Enigmas of Space and Race after a professor claimed that African-American architecture was an oxymoron.

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January 16, 2004, 6:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

In defense of his course content, he told us students, "Why aren't we studying black [architecture]? Because it doesn't exist!" He said this in front of a class of 40 Yale School of Architecture graduate students: that architecture made by someone of color, like me, was unimaginable. »

Thanks to Julie Taraska

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