Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

Mario Gooden • Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture

ISBN-10: 1941332137 · ISBN-13: 978‑1941332139 · 2016

Live offer for this book: 8 live copies of this book from $14.20 (as of 2026-09-01).

Dimensions: 0.8 × 0.5 × 0 in

Canonical book record

Completeness 48

Cover quality: low resolution

2manybooks editorial

This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move 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 here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of "African American architecture," and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.

Book metadata

Marketplace observations

8 live copies of this book from $14.20 (as of 2026-09-01).

Contributors

Community tags

Inferred themes

Machine-inferred from catalog text. Not verified subjects.

Community signals

Have: 14 · Like: 4 · Rating: 3.8 / 5 (10)