The National Museum of African American History and Culture has launched Rendering Visible, a digital collecting initiative intended to celebrate the "creative production" of Black architects. Through a call for submissions, the initiative will allow the museum to to select architectural illustrations to be considered for inclusion in the Museum's digital collection.
According to the museum website, the goal of Rendering Visible is to document the creativity of Black architects and designers. Submissions should include sketches, renderings, and artistic illustrations that convey the intent and concept of a design project.
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What should the building symbolize? A jail? A cage? Who builds a landmark for african-americans in the shape of a favela-box? The African culture is rich in shapes of color and joy. It's racist and disrespectful calling such a sad block an honor to their culture.
So submit something you think is more worthy?
Weird, you'd think that the two design teams, one lead by an African American architect, and the other lead by a Brit of African descent, would know a little about the African diaspora....
"The form of the building suggests a very upward mobility. It’s a ziggurat that moves upward into the sky, rather than downward into the ground. And it hovers above the ground. When you see this building, the opaque parts look like they’re being levitated above this light space, so you get the sense of an upward mobility in the building. And when you look at the way the circulation works, everything lifts you up into the light. This is not a story about past trauma. For me, the story is one that’s extremely uplifting, as a kind of world story. It’s not a story of a people that were taken down, but actually a people that overcame and transformed an entire superpower into what it is today." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/q-and-a-with-architect-david-adjaye-18968512/
Arkon, you use the adjective "their". If you don't mind sharing, what do you identify as and what entitles you to decide meaning for "their" (your word, not mine) building?
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