Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
Published on 11. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-63345-114-8 (ISBN)
Description
During the Museum of Modern Art's 90-year history, African American architects and designers have had little to no purchase in its permanent collection and exhibition histories, reflective of larger trends in museum and architectural discourses at large. The exclusion of Black architects and designers from the academic imagination have largely been waylaid in favor of dominant formalist and stylistic concerns. This book, conceived as a field guide to accompany the exhibition at MoMA, examines how contemporary architecture may address the varied contexts of systemic anti-Black racism that have fostered violent histories of discrimination and injustice in the United States. The invited contributors reimagine the legacies of race-based dispossession in ten American cities and how individuals and communities across the United States have mobilized Black cultural spaces, forms, and practices as sites of imagination, liberation, resistance, and refusal. The catalogue will feature a portfolio of new photographs by artist David Hartt.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
185 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 206 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63345-114-8 (9781633451148)
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Persons
Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor in Architecture at Columbia University.
Content
Foreword: Glenn D. Lowry, Director, MoMA
Introduction: Sean Anderson and Mabel Wilson
Preface: Robin D. G. Kelley
Scholar Essay: Christina Sharpe, "Black Gathering" 2000 words
Foundation Texts: Roberta Washington "Designing for Social Justice" 500 words
Justin Garrett Moore "Design for All of the Above" 500 words
Aruna d'Souza "Shack Stories" 500 words
Scholar Essay: Charles Davis, "Moving Beyond Repair" 2000 words
Architect Project: Emanuel Admassu, Atlanta, GA
Architect Project: J. Yolande Daniels, Los Angeles, CA
Foundation Texts: Audrey Petty, "Stories from Stateway Gardens" 500 words
Ifeoma Ebo, "Housing for Creative Urban Alchemy" 500 words
Scholar Essay: Tonya Foster, "Shotgun Houses" 2000 words
Architect Project: Felecia Davis, Pittsburgh, PA
Architect Project: Germane Barnes, Miami, FL
Scholar Essay: Dianne Harris, "Carceral Space and Domestic Space" 2000 words
Architect Project: Sekou Cooke, Syracuse, NY
Documentary Photo Essay David Hartt: Langston Terrace, Washington DC by Hilyard Robinson and Paul Revere Williams
Foundation Texts: Arièle Dionne-Krosnick "YMCA swimming pool" 500 words
Michelle Joan Wilkinson "Imagining East Harlem" 500 words Scholar Essays: Adrienne Brown "Reconstruction's Breadth" 2000 words
Milton S. F. Curry "Architecture Race Theory" 2000 words
Architect Project: Mario Gooden , Nashville, TN
Architect Project: V. Mitch McEwen, New Orleans, LA
Architect Project: Amanda Williams, St. Louis, MO
Foundation Texts: Carla Shedd, "Supply Side Criminomics" 500 words
Jennifer Newsom Carruthers "A Refusal of Border" 500 words
Scholar Essay: David Naguib Pellow, "Environmental Racism and the Carceral State" 2000 words
Architect Project: Walter Hood, Oakland, CA
Architect Project: Olalekan Jeyifous, New York, NY
Bibliography
Index and Credits
Introduction: Sean Anderson and Mabel Wilson
Preface: Robin D. G. Kelley
Scholar Essay: Christina Sharpe, "Black Gathering" 2000 words
Foundation Texts: Roberta Washington "Designing for Social Justice" 500 words
Justin Garrett Moore "Design for All of the Above" 500 words
Aruna d'Souza "Shack Stories" 500 words
Scholar Essay: Charles Davis, "Moving Beyond Repair" 2000 words
Architect Project: Emanuel Admassu, Atlanta, GA
Architect Project: J. Yolande Daniels, Los Angeles, CA
Foundation Texts: Audrey Petty, "Stories from Stateway Gardens" 500 words
Ifeoma Ebo, "Housing for Creative Urban Alchemy" 500 words
Scholar Essay: Tonya Foster, "Shotgun Houses" 2000 words
Architect Project: Felecia Davis, Pittsburgh, PA
Architect Project: Germane Barnes, Miami, FL
Scholar Essay: Dianne Harris, "Carceral Space and Domestic Space" 2000 words
Architect Project: Sekou Cooke, Syracuse, NY
Documentary Photo Essay David Hartt: Langston Terrace, Washington DC by Hilyard Robinson and Paul Revere Williams
Foundation Texts: Arièle Dionne-Krosnick "YMCA swimming pool" 500 words
Michelle Joan Wilkinson "Imagining East Harlem" 500 words Scholar Essays: Adrienne Brown "Reconstruction's Breadth" 2000 words
Milton S. F. Curry "Architecture Race Theory" 2000 words
Architect Project: Mario Gooden , Nashville, TN
Architect Project: V. Mitch McEwen, New Orleans, LA
Architect Project: Amanda Williams, St. Louis, MO
Foundation Texts: Carla Shedd, "Supply Side Criminomics" 500 words
Jennifer Newsom Carruthers "A Refusal of Border" 500 words
Scholar Essay: David Naguib Pellow, "Environmental Racism and the Carceral State" 2000 words
Architect Project: Walter Hood, Oakland, CA
Architect Project: Olalekan Jeyifous, New York, NY
Bibliography
Index and Credits