Classicisms of Color: Transatlantic Exchanges in African and American Traditional Architecture

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The beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, was built by enslaved Africans, and the painful historical connections between classical architecture slavery have encouraged some critics to see classicism as racist. Contemporary black artist Jonathan Green, however, proposed a new way viewing Charleston’s buildings: testament creativity resilience that fused African architectural traditions, such colonnaded porches metalwork, with European ones. Following this essay traces number trans-Atlantic forged during age empires. Many different nations, from Ethiopia Ghana, developed great architectures traveled Europe America through migration people or publication books. African-American designs also returned Africa, sometimes accents, found compatibility indigenous traditions. As Green asserted, truth emerges study: traditional is bigger than racism. It African, American, human.

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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of traditional building, architecture and urbanism

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2660-583X', '2660-5821']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.51303/jtbau.vi2.531