Issues of Identity and Difference

Buildings that address issues of identity and difference: culture, gender, age, ability. Buildings for specific groups of people, or that celebrate identity or differences between groups. Design for multiculturalism, or anonymous global culture, for example, places for travel or buildings that can be placed anywhere. Design for other species or for many species, for example wildlife sanctuaries in the city.

Architects: David Adjaye, Charles Correa, Tadao Ando, Hassan Fathy, also look at regional vernacular architecture and architects who build specifically for their local milieu.

Books and Articles:

Borden, Iain, ed. The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000.

Boyarsky, Nicholas, and Peter Lang, eds. Urban Flashes Asia. London: AD, 2003.

Brouwer, Joke, Philip Brookman, and Arien Mulder, eds. Transurbanism. Rotterdam: V2 Publishing/NAi 2002.

Caples, Sara, ed. The New Mix: Culturally Dynamic Architecture, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2005.

Colomina, Beatriz. Privacy and Publicity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

Colomina, Beatriz, and Jennifer Bloomer, eds. Sexuality and Space. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.

Foster, Hal. Prosthetic Gods. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2004.

Foucault, Michael. " Of Other Spaces." Diacritics 16, no. no. 1 (1986): 22-27.

Friedman, Alice. Women and the Making of the Modern House. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

Godfrey, Mark. Abstraction and the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

Hight, Christopher, and Chris Perry, eds. Collective Intelligence in Design, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2006.

Isozaki, Arata. Japanness in Architecture. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005.

King, Anthony. Spaces of Global Culture: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity. London: Routledge, 2004.

Latour, Bruno, and Dennis Weibel, eds. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005.

Leach, Neil, ed. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. London: Routledge, 1997.

Lokko, Lesley Naa Norle, ed. White Papers Black Marks. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press, 2000.

Nesbitt, Kate, ed. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996.

Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1988.

Upton, Dell. Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

Upton, Dell, and John Vlach, eds. Common Places: Readings in Vernacular Architecture. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Wilson, Elizabeth. The Sphinx in the City. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1991.