Beyond Buildings
Teaching Architecture Through a Critical Race Theory Lens in Virginia
Aaron Betsky on his commitment to teach about the racist, colonial, and exploitative history and present of the design fields, despite the state's governor-elect Glenn Youngkin's promise to outlaw the practice in 2022.
7 MIN READ!["We cannot turn away from the fact that many of the structures we hold up as examples, like Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello [pictured], were instruments of oppression, rape, and forced labor, and that even what we think of as neutral models, in whatever style, were the built affirmation of wealth built on violence."](https://architectmagazine.stg.zonda.onl/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/monticello-reflected.jpg?w=550)
