Originally trained as an architect at the Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela, Fabiola LÓpez-DurÁnreceived a PhD in the history, theory, and criticism of art and architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently an assistant professor of modern art and architectural history at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Practicing Utopia: Eugenics and the Medicalization of the Built EnvironmentChapter 2. Paris Goes West: From the MusÉe Social to an “Ailing Paradise”Chapter 3. Machines for Modern Life: The Apparatuses of Health and ReproductionChapter 4. Picturing Evolution: Le Corbusier and the Remaking of ManEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

[Eugenics in the Garden] is a timely and powerful contribution to the slow dismantling of a Eurocentric and sometimes—directly or indirectly—white supremacist history of architecture. (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) [Eugenics in the Garden is] really enjoyable, extremely readable. It very deftly ties together many discursive strands and historical objects including medical and scientific treatises, popular fiction, large-scale urban demolition projects, modernist buildings, art, landscape designs, and world exhibitions. And accordingly, the book contributes to a number of disciplinary areas, including colonial medicine and, relatedly, architectures of medicine and urban hygiene; tropical architecture; and racial urban planning. I found it to be one of the most incisive interpretations of Le Corbusier I've read. (Journal of Architecture) An important book of innovative scholarship that breaks new ground. LÓpez-DurÁn’s book is timely given the current racial tensions of the United States, and will be useful to scholars of urban and architectural history, theory and criticism, public health policy, and political and economic history of Latin America; and especially to those interested in the social and cultural criticism of modernist urban design and architecture in relation to ideology, politics, and race. (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Eugenics in the Garden is a significant contribution to recording and explaining reproachable aspects of modernist planning ideologies founded on eugenics…[López-Durán's] work is a timely reminder that social engineering, especially through planning and architecture, can all too easily become a vehicle for the application of racist ideologies; and these, regardless of the era, should be seen as unacceptable attempts to marginalize and dehumanize all those who do not fit into idealized utopian societies. For anyone interested in understanding spatial production and its implications, López-Durán's work should form a fundamental part of their reading list. (caa.reviews)

Originally trained as an architect at the Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela, Fabiola LÓpez-DurÁnreceived a PhD in the history, theory, and criticism of art and architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently an assistant professor of modern art and architectural history at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Practicing Utopia: Eugenics and the Medicalization of the Built EnvironmentChapter 2. Paris Goes West: From the MusÉe Social to an “Ailing Paradise”Chapter 3. Machines for Modern Life: The Apparatuses of Health and ReproductionChapter 4. Picturing Evolution: Le Corbusier and the Remaking of ManEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

[Eugenics in the Garden] is a timely and powerful contribution to the slow dismantling of a Eurocentric and sometimes—directly or indirectly—white supremacist history of architecture. (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) [Eugenics in the Garden is] really enjoyable, extremely readable. It very deftly ties together many discursive strands and historical objects including medical and scientific treatises, popular fiction, large-scale urban demolition projects, modernist buildings, art, landscape designs, and world exhibitions. And accordingly, the book contributes to a number of disciplinary areas, including colonial medicine and, relatedly, architectures of medicine and urban hygiene; tropical architecture; and racial urban planning. I found it to be one of the most incisive interpretations of Le Corbusier I've read. (Journal of Architecture) An important book of innovative scholarship that breaks new ground. LÓpez-DurÁn’s book is timely given the current racial tensions of the United States, and will be useful to scholars of urban and architectural history, theory and criticism, public health policy, and political and economic history of Latin America; and especially to those interested in the social and cultural criticism of modernist urban design and architecture in relation to ideology, politics, and race. (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Eugenics in the Garden is a significant contribution to recording and explaining reproachable aspects of modernist planning ideologies founded on eugenics…[López-Durán's] work is a timely reminder that social engineering, especially through planning and architecture, can all too easily become a vehicle for the application of racist ideologies; and these, regardless of the era, should be seen as unacceptable attempts to marginalize and dehumanize all those who do not fit into idealized utopian societies. For anyone interested in understanding spatial production and its implications, López-Durán's work should form a fundamental part of their reading list. (caa.reviews)

Originally trained as an architect at the Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela, Fabiola LÓpez-DurÁnreceived a PhD in the history, theory, and criticism of art and architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently an assistant professor of modern art and architectural history at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Practicing Utopia: Eugenics and the Medicalization of the Built EnvironmentChapter 2. Paris Goes West: From the MusÉe Social to an “Ailing Paradise”Chapter 3. Machines for Modern Life: The Apparatuses of Health and ReproductionChapter 4. Picturing Evolution: Le Corbusier and the Remaking of ManEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

[Eugenics in the Garden] is a timely and powerful contribution to the slow dismantling of a Eurocentric and sometimes—directly or indirectly—white supremacist history of architecture. (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) [Eugenics in the Garden is] really enjoyable, extremely readable. It very deftly ties together many discursive strands and historical objects including medical and scientific treatises, popular fiction, large-scale urban demolition projects, modernist buildings, art, landscape designs, and world exhibitions. And accordingly, the book contributes to a number of disciplinary areas, including colonial medicine and, relatedly, architectures of medicine and urban hygiene; tropical architecture; and racial urban planning. I found it to be one of the most incisive interpretations of Le Corbusier I've read. (Journal of Architecture) An important book of innovative scholarship that breaks new ground. LÓpez-DurÁn’s book is timely given the current racial tensions of the United States, and will be useful to scholars of urban and architectural history, theory and criticism, public health policy, and political and economic history of Latin America; and especially to those interested in the social and cultural criticism of modernist urban design and architecture in relation to ideology, politics, and race. (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Eugenics in the Garden is a significant contribution to recording and explaining reproachable aspects of modernist planning ideologies founded on eugenics…[López-Durán's] work is a timely reminder that social engineering, especially through planning and architecture, can all too easily become a vehicle for the application of racist ideologies; and these, regardless of the era, should be seen as unacceptable attempts to marginalize and dehumanize all those who do not fit into idealized utopian societies. For anyone interested in understanding spatial production and its implications, López-Durán's work should form a fundamental part of their reading list. (caa.reviews)