{"id":108784,"date":"2023-12-12T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_viewpoint&#038;p=108784"},"modified":"2023-12-12T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:08:14","slug":"2-books-winter-reading-list-2023","status":"publish","type":"metro_product","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/products\/2-books-winter-reading-list-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Books for Your Winter Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:73% 51%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Book-featured-image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Book-featured-image.png 2000w, 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wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">These must-read titles unpack the histories that shaped architecture and design today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=\"\/tag\/zach-mortice\">Zach Mortice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fproducts%2F2-books-winter-reading-list-2023%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M9 8h-3v4h3v12h5v-12h3.642l.358-4h-4v-1.667c0-.955.192-1.333 1.115-1.333h2.885v-5h-3.808c-3.596 0-5.192 1.583-5.192 4.615v3.385z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fproducts%2F2-books-winter-reading-list-2023%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=c044953\">Chicago Skyscrapers 1934\u20131986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">&nbsp;By Thomas Leslie, University of Illinois Press, 2023, 354 pp., $44.95<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1545\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/high-res-cover-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago Skyscrapers cover\" class=\"wp-image-108788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/high-res-cover-image-1.jpg 1545w, 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Leslie\u2019s book inducts the disastrous Chicago Housing Authority high-rises into the city\u2019s skyscraper canon, with the implication that their failure is as canonically American as the success of the Sears and Hancock Towers, which are also present alongside the rest of <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=chicago\">Chicago<\/a>\u2019s 20th-century steel-and-glass titans. With granular observation of how new building technology (fluorescent lights, air-conditioning, curtain walls) aided this ascent, and how public policy carefully controlled who was allowed into which skyline perch, <em>Chicago Skyscrapers 1934\u20131986 <\/em>situates architecture as a clumsy yet still often graceful mediation between ambition, imagination, and economics stripped of saintly airs of neutrality.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262048668\/an-anthology-of-blackness\/\">&nbsp;<em>An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">&nbsp;Edited by Terresa Moses and Omari Souza\/foreword by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, MIT Press, 2023, 264 pp., $32.95<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1326\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/An-Anthology-of-Blackness-Cover-Art.jpg\" alt=\"An Anthology of Blackness cover\" class=\"wp-image-108787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/An-Anthology-of-Blackness-Cover-Art.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/An-Anthology-of-Blackness-Cover-Art-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/An-Anthology-of-Blackness-Cover-Art-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/An-Anthology-of-Blackness-Cover-Art-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/An-Anthology-of-Blackness-Cover-Art-1018x1536.jpg 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1326px) 100vw, 1326px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy MIT Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">This collection of essays, opinion pieces, case studies, and visual narratives looks toward the horizon of an <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/design-for-equity-primer\/\">anti-racist design<\/a> industry. Divided into three sections that focus on the design industry itself, surrounding pedagogy, and activism, the book analyzes how Black graphic designers\u2014from the early 20th century to today\u2014have called for social justice while exploring the legacy of Eurocentric beauty standards, especially hair. There\u2019s a brisk survey of African histories of\u00a0making in the pedagogy section, as well as an investigation of why Black students don\u2019t enroll in design electives. The portion on the design industry offers technocratic and heartfelt suggestions: for example, using video games to attract Black youth to design, and improving practices of arts and cultural stewardship. With intersectional perspectives on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and ability, the anthology reminds the reader: \u201cDesign is not a master\u2019s tool.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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