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Featured spreads are from 'In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism,' the recent release from @larsmullerpublishers launching today at 6:30 PM EST via @prattinstitute with a Zoom conversation between Marisa Williamson, Jeffrey Hogrefe & Scott Ruff.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ A 256-page anthology drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, this well illustrated volume explores the creative relationship between the African diaspora and social space in America. "If the African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery," editor Jeffrey Hogrefe asks in his Introduction, "how does architecture speak to that experience, and how can the African American person respond to such an architecture that traditionally serves to fortify the state? This is a question that we ask in the face of escalating state violence toward Black people, which is occurring at the same time as the emergence of a Black aesthetics that has repositioned blackness as central to a politics of transformation… For the most part, architecture has been designed to regulate, survey, punish, and erase the Black person, which is why, until recently, the African American experience of space has remained largely outside of the study and practice of architecture. This is remarkable, considering that slavery, a key material practice in the European colonization of the western hemisphere, was carried out in the carceral spaces of the slave ship, slave plantation cabin and urban 'slum/ghetto.' From these architectural typologies, African Americans have self-fashioned other uses and meanings by appropriating space for resistance through everyday practices."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Register via linkinbio and order the book from your favorite independent bookstore!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ @marisaswilliamson⁠⁠⁠ @ruffworksstudio⁠⁠⁠ @jeffreyhogrefe⁠⁠⁠ #insearchofafricanamericanspace⁠⁠⁠ #africanamericanspace⁠⁠⁠ #blackarchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CLJ8-hqJ8xQ/?igshid=1hvf2254hkvhb

THURSDAY, Feb 11 at 6:30 PM EST! @prattinstitute presents Marisa Williamson, Jeffrey Hogrefe & Scott Ruff on 'In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism' ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The discussion is the first of three inspired by the anthology 'In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism' published by @larsmullerpublishers Co-editors Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff will provide an overview of the anthology followed by a discussion between authors Scott Ruff and Marisa Williamson on their respective chapters as they address the Monticello slave plantation as a site of spatial practice in architecture and performance. If the African American experience emerges from slavery, what can architecture say to that experience? Crossing the disciplines of history, architecture and performance, the authors excavate personal experience and historical record to address the provocation from different perspectives, providing a range of interpretations of space making as practices in undoing racism.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Williamson writes: "This book is full of incredible practice, theory, and scholarship on the utopic dream that keeps us alive: African american space. What is it? Where is it? Will there ever be enough?"⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Register via linkinbio!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @marisaswilliamson⁠⁠ @ruffworksstudio⁠⁠ @jeffreyhogrefe⁠⁠ #insearchofafricanamericanspace⁠⁠ #africanamericanspace⁠⁠ #blackarchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CLHcLevpaTn/?igshid=10aoaxrew8ln6

Crook Point Bridge Crook Point Linear Park . . Adaptive Reuse- Brownfield Reclamation @montoutearchitect #NOMA #poc_arch #layersofdesign #poc #blackarchitecture #architecturecompetition #thecolorblocloves (at Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCmC4mso9S/?igshid=p3d3rprxbaiw

Valer - Kirk Studies @montoutearchitect #NOMA #poc_arch #layersofdesign #poc #blackarchitecture #architecturecompetition #TheColorBlocLoves #designcompetition #designsolution #redesign #architecture #archdaily #archilovers #superarchitects #next_top_architects #arquitectura #NOMAEverywhere #SpatialShifts #ALLinforNOMA #architecturemode #architecture_view #architecturedose #architects_need https://www.instagram.com/p/CGJA2wdMU2r/?igshid=1ub9hlvql4cky

Warika Gallery Project for a gallery to display glass, ceramic, and carved wood objects. A luminous fabric ceiling lights the gallery, as the objects sit on seemingly floating painted steel shelves. The display is both a means of display and archive as it weaves back and forth to make space, allow for multiple viewing points, and to see and be seen. @montoutearchitect #NOMA #poc_arch #layersofdesign #poc #blackarchitecture #architecturecompetition #TheColorBlocLoves #designcompetition #designsolution #redesign #architecture #archdaily #archilovers #superarchitects #next_top_architects #arquitectura #NOMAEverywhere #SpatialShifts #ALLinforNOMA #architecturemode #architecture_view #architecturedose #architects_need . . @pedal_design_lab @thecolorbloc @thehiphoparchitect @layersofdesign_ @wanteddesign @architecture_hunter https://www.instagram.com/p/CDWbPgeJ8mg/?igshid=1cxhjri8p8hlr

Museum Gallery Studies Considering tonality. . . Light - Dark Smooth -Rough Opaque - Transparent Presence - Absence All in pursuit of elusive moments that appear and disappear through the course of a day, a month, a year. . . #NOMA #poc_arch #layersofdesign #poc #blackarchitecture #architecturecompetition #TheColorBlocLoves #designcompetition #designsolution #redesign #net-zero #architecture #archdaily #archilovers #superarchitects #next_top_architects #arquitectura #NOMAEverywhere #SpatialShifts #ALLinforNOMA #architecturemode #architecture_view #architecturedose #architects_need . . . . @pedal_design_lab @thecolorbloc @thehiphoparchitect @layersofdesign_ @wanteddesign @architecture_hunter . @montoutearchitect . . https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCfn7Hsq6y/?igshid=1cqqga96cw02r