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Barozzi Veiga-designed Oolite Arts complex hopes to become a new hub for Miami's growing artistic community

2022-04-13T19:46:00-04:00

Two years after beating out more than 100 different international firms and being named to its commission, Barcelona’s Estudio Barozzi Veiga has finally unveiled renderings of its new “signature building” for the nonprofit Oolite Arts in Miami.

The museum and educational center will offer space for artists and the community to enhance each other through an exchange created by the addition of the new village-like cultural hub, acting as an anchor to the increasingly trendy Little River Art District.

Image courtesy of Oolite Arts

The updated design appears to show an open-ended scheme with plenty of trees and other greenery dotting an oasis-like internal courtyard. Interior space is organized into repeated vertical elements with an influx of natural light providing framing for its office and exhibition spaces, two classrooms, a theater, and the 21 free studios promised as part of Oolite’s storied artist-in-residency program.

Image courtesy of Oolite Arts

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Dream the Combine, Germane Barnes, Nina Cooke John, Design Earth, and SO – IL among winners of the 2022 USA Fellowship

2022-01-26T14:51:00-05:00

The United States Artists (USA) Fellowship is a program that celebrates the work of artists and their "essential role in society." Across ten disciplines ranging from architecture and design (A&D) to craft, media, and film, 63 artists were inducted into this year's fellowship cohort.

The 2022 USA Fellows representing the discipline of architecture and design are Tom Carruthers and Jennifer Newsom of Dream The Combine, Germane Barnes of Studio Barnes, Nina Cooke John of Studio Cooke John, Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy of Design Earth, and Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg of SO – IL.

Each design practice has produced notable works and made important contributions to the architecture and design community. From academia to the arts, civic engagement, and professional practice, this year's selected winners represent the future of industry changemakers. This group of 2022 Fellows joins the likes of past A&D fellows such as Theaster Gates, Jennifer Bonner, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, M...

Germane Barnes is Harvard GSD's 2021 Wheelwright Prize winner

2021-05-10T15:26:00-04:00

Harvard's Graduate School of Design announced the winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize: architect and Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture Germane Barnes will receive the coveted $100,000 fellowship fund to support his two-year research project Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture. Barnes proposes to examine Roman and Italian architecture through the lens of non-white constructors, studying "how spaces have been transformed through the material contributions of the African Diaspora while creating new architectural possibilities that emerge within investigations of Blackness."

Germane Barnes' research proposal was selected from a field of finalists that also included Iulia Statica, Luis Berríos-Negrón, and Catty Dan Zhang.

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"The past year has shown the world that marginalized communities offer more than a cursory look but a thorough excavation of their contributions and legacies," Barnes said. "As a Black...