New from Columbia Books on Architecture & The City

Books on African-American architecture and the Arab city

New from Columbia Books on Architecture & The City COLUMBIA BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY Dark Space Architecture, Representation, Black Identity Mario Gooden This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture.  Gooden moves between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and clichés to communicate significance, demonstrating "Africanisms" through form and symbolism -- but there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented as a series of questions, Gooden interrogates and illuminates other narratives of "African American architecture," and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space. $20.00 $14.00 | Paper | 128 pages | £15.00*   USE COUPON CODE "EMAIL" AND SAVE 30%   *Customers in UK, Europe, and Middle East please contact customer@wiley.com The Arab City Architecture and Representation Edited by Amale Andraos and Nora Akawi Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and modernity, The Arab City: Architectural and Representation critically engages contemporary architectural and urban production in the Middle East.  Taking the "Arab City" and "Islamic Architecture" as sites of investigation rather than given categories, this book reframes the region's buildings, cities, and landscapes and broadens its architectural and urban canons. Arab cities are multifaceted places and sites of layered historical imaginaries; defined by regional and territorial economies, they bridge scales of production and political engagement. The essays collected here investigate cultural representation, the evolution of historical cities, contemporary architectural practices, emerging urban conditions, and responsive urban imaginaries in the Arab World.  $60.00 $48.00 | Cloth | 300 pages | £44.00*   USE COUPON CODE "EMAIL" AND SAVE 30%   *Customers in UK, Europe, and Middle East please contact customer@wiley.com STAY CONNECTED

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