Locating Race in the Epistemology of Architectural Organicism: Viollet-le-Duc, Race Science, and the Scientific Claims of Structural Rationalism

The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Art and the Institute of African American Research, a part of the UNC African American Studies Consortium, presents Postdoctoral Research Fellow Charles Davis' lecture Locating Race in the Epistemology of Architectural Organicism: Viollet-le-Duc, Race Science, and the Scientific claims of Structural Rationalism. Davis received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. He has previously taught seminar courses on the history/theory of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons the New School for Design, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Art History at UNC-Chapel Hill.