Zipf published in Radical Teacher
Zipf describes “from its start, I wanted to take the long view of the subject, and to define both ‘architecture’ and ‘slavery’ very broadly.
Catherine Zipf’s article, “The Architecture of American Slavery: Teaching the Black Lives Matter Movement to Architects” was published in Radical Teacher, an online journal of the University of Pittsburgh, in Fall 2016. Zipf served in 2015/16 as Visiting Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History. Zipf describes “from its start, I wanted to take the long view of the subject, and to define both ‘architecture’ and ‘slavery’ very broadly. The long view created the opportunity to draw connections between the past and the present—not just plantation houses and slave quarters but every space and landscape in which the economic apparatus of slavery took form, including sugar houses, cotton mills, universities, missions, and public housing.”