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Charles L. Davis II is an Associate Professor of Architectural History and Criticism at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture, and Program Director for the Architecture PhD program. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Arch from SUNY Buffalo. His research focuses on racial identity in architectural history and design, particularly the intersections of race, style theory, and modernism.
Education: PhD in Architecture (University of Pennsylvania), M.Arch (SUNY Buffalo), B.P.S. (SUNY Buffalo).
Research interests include architectural organicism, 19th-century American architecture, and Black architectural modernity. He co-edited Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (2020) and authored Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (2019), which won the Charles Rufus Morey Book Prize. His current projects include Putting Black in Place: A Spatial History of Black Architectural Modernity and a co-edited volume on 19th-century American architectural historiography.
Recent publications explore colonialism in architectural theory, racial allegories in Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, and Black literary space as architectural criticism. Awards include grants from the Canadian Center for Architecture and the Graham Foundation.
Teaching focuses on race and place, modernist spaces in African American literature/film, and settler colonialism in American architecture. No advising/grant data explicitly provided in texts.
