Soft Form Talk 3

Designer, architectural historian and cultural critic Charles L. Davis II (SUNY Buffalo) examines the racial politics of canonicity in modern architectural history, and its long-term effects on the cultural biases of contemporary practice. “When I am talking about an antiracist architectural history, I am talking about the ways that architectural history is used instrumentally, as a kind of ideological tool to reaffirm certain forms of privilege or power structures in our discipline.”