Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

by Jacqueline Taylor

Book Overview

The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262048345
• ISBN13: 9780262048347
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"