{"product_id":"dasp-portfolio","title":"DaSP (Portfolio)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaSP summarizes the research activities I have conducted to explore the critical intersections between form and culture. The acronym DaSP stands for design as social praxis. In comparison to traditional avant-garde practices that give short shrift to social concerns, my work expands the ways that architecture serves as a tool for mediating social needs. While formal experimentation remains an important tool for any design practice, it is used here to support the social and cultural purposes of the built environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e(BIO: Charles Davis is an architectural historian and critic. He completed his MasterÕs of Architecture at SUNY Buffalo and his Ph.D. in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His academic research examines the historical integrations of race and style theory in modern architectures of the nineteenth and twentieth century. CharlesÕ current book manuscript, ÒBuilding Character: the Racial Politics of Modern Architectural StyleÓ is under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44303701573793,"sku":"9781111111354","price":27.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1q5yywyp-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1748262715","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/dasp-portfolio","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}