Lecture: "Race, Design and the FHA"

Start: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 3:00 PM
End: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 4:30 PM
Location: HI 155 (History Lounge)
Contact: JoAnna Poblete-Cross, jpoblete@uwyo.edu, 766-5102

Event Details:

The first UW History Department Colloquium for 2009-2010:

"California's Postwar Suburban Cooperatives: Race, Design and the FHA."

Anthony Denzer, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering at UW

Tuesday, November 10 from 3:10 - 4:30 p.m. in History 155.

(Refreshments to follow)

Professor Denzer's paper will examine three landmark cooperative housing projects initiated in California after World War II in order to probe the relationship between social values and design against a backdrop of institutional resistance.In addition to their shared pursuit of a cooperative financial structure, these projects generally shared a similar social makeup and a commitment to modern architecture, raising the possibility that they might be understood as part of a common movement (if not organized as such).The most progressive group on the issue of race sponsored the most innovative design, while the cooperatives that opted for political compromise exhibited (relatively) less radical forms of architecture, landscape design and community planning.