Abstract
To take decolonial theory seriously inevitably confronts us with the origin story of our discipline. In what should be a mandatory reading of any architectural history course, this text reassesses the role the âdiscovery of Americaâ had on Renaissance thinkers and thus architecture. Abstraction, the ability to separate lived from planned space, which gives rise to the architectural discipline as we know it, is inseparable from the exploitation of America by Europeans. In this way, our discipline was not created within an Italian studio but in the violent encounters between European colonizers and Indigenous Americans.
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