The second installment of Jennifer Bonner’s “Dirty South” studio at Georgia Tech's School of Architecture immersed itself in the culture and history of New Orleans. Continuing the analogy of East Coast/West Coast rap wars in the 1990s and the emergence of the Dirty South artists Outkast and... View full entry
The second installation of The Dirty South studio with Jennifer Bonner at Georgia Tech takes on New Orleans. Using the legacy of Dirty South hip hop as inspiration within the framework of a guidebook of B-side tours, students investigated unusual patterns and idiosyncrasies in the city. Projects spanned topics from misuse of Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia to reappropriation of the city's most controversial monuments to installation of an illegal auction house within the convention center.