The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Andrew Jackson Downing's Cottage Residences
Description
In 1842, Andrew Jackson Downing wrote Cottage Residences; or a series of designs for rural cottages and cottage-villas and their gardens and grounds adapted to North America. By paying equal attention to what is made explicit and to what is intentionally omitted, this podcast will situate the book in a context of intersecting forces of settler colonialism, imperialism, and post-colonialism. Using the subtitle of the book as an outline, we will briefly delve into: the function of pattern books in mid 19th century America; the implications and framing of the “cottage”; the role of landscape and nature in property-ownership; and the use of the Anglo-Saxon identity as a legitimizing narrative for American architecture.
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