Barnabas Calder

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    Rethinking Architectural History

    A new generation of architectural historians are disrupting the canon through the lens of sustainability and racial identity.

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    A 1941 photo of congregants at Chicago’s Pilgrim Baptist Church, formerly a synagogue designed by Louis Sullivan, from the book Building Character. Author Charles L. Davis II describes how new congregations reused existing religious structures. “Demographic changes and white flight made African Americans the final stewards of Kehilath Anshe Ma’ariv Synagogue beginning in 1921. It was only through these historical migrations that blacks were finally given a chance to contribute to the democratic aims of Sullivan’s political discourse,” Davis writes.

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