Principal at Huff + Gooden Architects
Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Dark Space by
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.
African-American Art by
African-American Art offers a current and comprehensive history that contextualizes black artists within the framework of American art as a whole. This compelling chronological survey explores issues of racial identity and representation while emphasizing aesthetics and visual analysis,helping students develop an understanding and appreciation of African-American art informed by - but not entirely defined by - racial identity.
| Selected Articles & Publications | Availability |
| Ajayi, Alicia Olushola. “The Legacy of Racism in the Making of Cities and Communities.” Architectural Record 209, no. 4 (April 2021): 32–33. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| Davis, Charles L. “Inside the Museum, Outside the Discourse. ["Reconstructions : Architecture and Blackness in America," Museum of Modern Art, New York].” Log, no. 52 (January 2021): 27–37. | |
| Gooden, Mario. “Colonialism, Water and the Black Body.” Design Ecologies 9, no. 1 (June 2020): 9–27. doi:10.1386/des_00002_1. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| McGuigan, Cathleen. “Whiteness in Architecture.” Architectural Record 208, no. 9 (September 2020): 80–83. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| Hartt, David. “Reconstructions Portrait: Mario Gooden on the Choreography of Black Spatial Praxes.” Pin-Up, 2020. | Online |
| Gooden, Mario and Mabel O. Wilson. “Urban Futures / Mutable Topologies.” Media City: 4 - International Conference, Workshops and Exhibition May 3-5, 2013 - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. p100-110. | Online |
| Gooden, Mario. “_Orm Is a Four-Letter Word.” Perspecta 43 (October 2010): 91–105. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| Zola, Zoka, Pablo Castro, Mario Gooden, Ron Witte, Teresa Rosano, Vicent Snyder, Paul Endres, Oliver Touraine, and C.C Sullivan. “The Open House and the Three-Week Utopia.” Architecture 93, no. 5 (May 2005): 20–22. | Full Text - US Modernist Library |
| Gooden, Mario. “The Problem with African American Museums.” Avery Review, no. 6 (March 2005). http://www.averyreview.com/issues/6/1-african-american-museums. | Online |
| Nesmith, Lynn. “Huff+Gooden Shapes a Socially Vital Modernism in Traditional South Carolina.” Architectural Record 189 np. 2 (February 2001): 108-111. | Full Text - US Modernist Library |
This guide was created with resources available through Kent State University Libraries or freely online. Visit the Huff + Gooden publications page for additional resources. These resources were compiled by the Joseph F Morbito Architectural Library in January 2022.
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