Americanitis: Introduction
Americanitis is a large-scale, multi-disciplinary project that investigates the role of architecture and urbanization in the construction of power structures and inequalities throughout the history of the United States of America. Its core premise is that the instillation of unfounded fear and precarity into the people with power is what maintains and reinforces the social order. Americanitis draws from evidence found throughout history, ranging from presidential executive orders and documentation of historical events to popular films and elementary school history books. It tracks the history of racial discrimination in the American landscape from the times of slavery, through the boom of segregated suburban neighbourhoods during the Cold War, to the present day.
Follow this link to read my article: Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy published by the Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art.
Fragments from the Americanitis archive
