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Meredith TenHoor

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Title page of William Ware, Outline of a Course of Architectural Instruction (Boston: John Wilson and Sons, 1886). Source: MIT Libraries.

History/Theory
November 2018










Notes
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See Meredith TenHoor, “Oppositions” Pidgin 3, Fall 2007.

2

This was the topic of a 2005 conference at Princeton University, “Discipline Building,” organized by Beatriz Colomina, Annmarie Brennan, Michael Wen-Sen Su, Shundana Yusaf and myself.

3

This is clear from looking at NCARB’s data on the profession at large; see . See also Lian Chikako Chang, “Where are the Women? Measuring Progress on Gender in Architecture.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture website, October 2014, ; Héctor Tarrido-Picart, “Valuing Black Lives Means Changing the Curricula,” The Aggregate website, Volume 2, March, 2015, ; and Jonathan Massey, “How can architects build the equitable discipline we deserve?” Architects’ Newspaper, September 20, 2018, .

4

It is worth noting the funding discrepancies between these two projects; GAHTC has been admirably and importantly supported by funds from the Mellon Foundation. While FAAC is a newer initiative run by much younger scholars, I yearn for the day when foundations support feminist scholarship with this kind of commitment.

5

See especially the “Race in Modern Architecture” project and forthcoming book edited by Irene Cheng, Charles Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson.

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See for instance the articles in the special section of Architectural Theory Review edited by Ana María Leon, and Niko Vicario, “Designing Commodity Cultures,” Architectural Theory Review 21, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 277–279; and the recent work of Ateya Khorakiwala on material circulations. I also see the championing of this form of history to have been a project of Aggregate. In my own teaching, I’ve leaned on Mark Jarzombek’s discussions of agriculture and irrigation, which has helped me to trace long urban histories of biopower; on Adedoyin Teriba’s work on how practices of building established untheorized aesthetic exchanges between Brazil and West Africa and Ayala Levin’s on the connections between West Africa and Israel; on Felicity Scott’s excavations of the geopolitics in avant-garde practices; on Helen Gyger’s work on housing production in Peru; on the analyses of labor that the Who Builds your Architecture? group has done, as well as those of the Architecture Lobby; on Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi’s work on migration; on the writings and discussions in Aggregate’s workshops, and on so many others I do not have room to mention here.

7

Will Glovinsky, “The Great Global Grad School Novel.” Public Books blog, October 22, 2018, , citing March 2018 statistics from the US Department of Labor.

8

See Susan Hassler, “STEM Crisis? What About the STS Crisis?” IEEE Spectrum, Sept 21, 2016, .