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Join in for a live interview with Mark Fleuridor and Germane Barnes on @designmiami IG handle today at 9:30PST and 12:30EST #markfleuridor #johanssonprojects #haitianartist #germanebarnes #designmiami (at Design Miami/) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYtxfimFnft/?utm_medium=tumblr

@nytimes architecture critic @michael_kimmelman presents a substantial conversation with members of the @blackreconstructioncollective — which came together during the past year and a half, in tandem with an exhibition now @themuseumofmodernart called “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.” The collective’s members are the 10 architects, artists and designers in the exhibition.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "The show includes some mind-bending, beautiful work, on view through the end of May. But the collective emerged to serve longer-term, more radical goals…⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 'Reconstructions' proceeds from a question: 'How do we construct Blackness?' The architects enlisted to answer this question are a multigenerational mix, including some familiar names. Nearly all run small or solo practices.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The group addresses the bigger question: How can Blackness construct America? Four of the members gathered on Zoom the other day to talk about the collective’s impetus and goals: Amanda Williams, Emanuel Admassu, J. Yolande Daniels and V. Mitch McEwen. The four were chosen as representatives by the other members: Sekou Cooke, Germane Barnes, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood and Olalekan Jeyifous.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read the conversation via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @awstudioart @eadmassu @yolande_daniels @therealmitchmcewen @sekou21 #GermaneBarnes @fadometer @mario_gooden_thisishowwework #WalterHood @kidcadaver https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXK988pYih/?igshid=59mw6fizkori

A shotgun house in the Bayou Saint John neighborhood of New Orleans damaged by Hurricane Katrina, 2006. Photo by Carlos Froggy May (Infrogmation). From 'Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,' published to accompany the landmark show now on view @themuseumofmodernart ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Camille Okhio writs in @archdigest "Space, land, the ways each are apportioned and navigated—these are the central concerns of 'Reconstructions,' which includes multidisciplinary work by 10 Black talents, among them artist Amanda Williams and AD100 landscape architect Walter Hood, as well as photography created by David Hartt in response... 'It is architecture that is not specifically about buildings, but about how the architecture of certain spaces is emblematic of anti-Black racism.'"⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Edited with text by Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson. Preface by Robin D. G. Kelley. Text by Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Adrienne Brown, Sekou Cooke, Milton S. F. Curry, J. Yolande Daniels, Charles L. Davis II, Felecia Davis, Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Aruna D’Souza, Ifeoma Ebo, Tonya M. Foster, Mario Gooden, Dianne Harris, Walter J. Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, Justin Garrett Moore, David Naguib Pellow, Jennifer Newsom, Audrey Petty, Christina Sharpe, Carla Shedd, Roberta Washington, Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Amanda Williams. Photographic portfolio by David Hartt.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @seanify22 @studio_and @robind340e @eadmassu #GermaneBarnes @akb.works @sekoucookestudio @curry.milton @yolande_daniels #CharlesLDavisII @fadometer @arieledk @invisible.flaneuse @ife__oma @fosterpoet @mario_gooden_thisishowwework #DianneHarris @walterhoodhd @kidcadaver @therealmitchmcewen @j.g.moore #DavidNaguibPellow @_jennifer_newsom_ #AudreyPetty #ChristinaSharpe #CarlaShedd @robertawashingtonarch @michelleinthemix @awstudioart @david_hartt #reconstructions #architecture #architectureandblackness #blackarchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CL418jIpDMl/?igshid=111095vvcdwkd

This 1936 Home Owner’s Loan Corporation redlining map of Oakland, California, is reproduced from 'Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,' published to accompany the show now on view ⁠⁠ @themuseumofmodernart ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This book is an urgent call for architects to accept the challenge of reconceiving and reconstructing our built environment rather than continue giving shape to buildings, infrastructure and urban plans that have, for generations, embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The architects, designers, artists and writers who were invited to contribute to this book—and to the exhibition at MoMA for which it serves as a “field guide”—reimagine the legacies of race-based dispossession in 10 American cities (Atlanta; Brooklyn, New York; Kinloch, Missouri; Los Angeles; Miami; Nashville; New Orleans; Oakland; Pittsburgh; and Syracuse) and celebrate the ways individuals and communities across the country have mobilized Black cultural spaces, forms and practices as sites of imagination, liberation, resistance, care and refusal.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ A broad range of essays by the curators and prominent scholars from diverse fields, as well as a portfolio of new photographs by the artist David Hartt, complement this volume’s richly illustrated presentations of the architectural projects at the heart of MoMA’s groundbreaking exhibition.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Edited with text by Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson. Contributions from @seanify22 @studio_and @robind340e @eadmassu #GermaneBarnes @akb.works @sekoucookestudio @curry.milton @yolande_daniels #CharlesLDavisII @fadometer @arieledk @invisible.flaneuse @ife__oma @fosterpoet @mario_gooden_thisishowwework #DianneHarris @walterhoodhd @kidcadaver @therealmitchmcewen @j.g.moore #DavidNaguibPellow @_jennifer_newsom_ #AudreyPetty #ChristinaSharpe #CarlaShedd @robertawashingtonarch @michelleinthemix @awstudioart @david_hartt ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #reconstructions #architecture #architectureandblackness #blackarchitecture @themuseumofmodernart https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4ki_spVrX/?igshid=1sloebpzfg7up

Felicia Davis's 2020 "Fabricating Networks Quilt" (detail: scenes from Pittsburgh) is reproduced from 'Reconstructions: Architecture & Blackness in America,' published to accompany the landmark show now on view @themuseumofmodernart A collection of 10 case studies on how American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism, this is essential reading for our times. "A conjoining of scales, historical research & projective interventions transcends the limits of architecture to assert one's contribution toward a shared history of belonging & a recuperation of humanity," editors Sean Anderson and Mabel O Wilson write. "In 2020, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic further reified the boundaries inscribed on redlining maps between those who live and those who die, underscoring the precarity of America's social contract. Returning to Du Bois, who writes that the most significant problem of the 20th century was the 'color line,' what might be said of those traces of the self-governing Black communities of Mound Bayou in Mississippi, Nicodemus in Kansas, Eatonville in Florida, Allensworth in California, and Seneca Village in New York City? We read these place-names and conjure the lives that inhabited the porches and kitchenettes, juke joints and schoolrooms, law offices and churches beyond the line, not because of it. And through these names we are able to retrace histories that speak to human cruelty, unspeakable depredation & imperial misadventure, while also securing—w/ unlimited promise—the prospect to think about, design & build spaces of resistance & refusal, imagination & liberation."⁠ ⁠ @blackreconstructioncollective @fadometer @seanify22 @studio_and @robind340e @eadmassu #GermaneBarnes @akb.works @sekoucookestudio @curry.milton @yolande_daniels #CharlesLDavisII @arieledk @invisible.flaneuse @ife__oma @fosterpoet @mario_gooden_thisishowwework #DianneHarris @walterhoodhd @kidcadaver @therealmitchmcewen @j.g.moore #DavidNaguibPellow @_jennifer_newsom_ #AudreyPetty #ChristinaSharpe #CarlaShedd @robertawashingtonarch @michelleinthemix @awstudioart @david_hartt #reconstructions #architecture #architectureandblackness #blackarchitecture @themuseumofmodernar https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4WbnAJjlw/?igshid=1r4wp5p6jelks

Germane Barnes’ beautiful designs in Opa-Locka, FL.