Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is the fourth installment of the Issues in Contemporary Architecture series at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The exhibition investigates the intersections of architecture, Blackness, and anti-Black racism in the United States.
Moreover, the featured projects will look at contemporary architecture and its role in the systemic racism that has facilitated discrimination and injustice in the U.S. A system that has informed and continues to inform the design of American cities through public policies, municipal planning, and architecture that has specifically impacted the Black community.
Reconstructions will feature 10 newly commissioned works by the selected architects, designers, and artists: Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams. According to MoMA, individual projects will respond to narratives and conditions found in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, Oakland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Syracuse.
The exhibition is organized by Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor at Columbia University, with Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, former Curatorial Assistant, and Anna Burckhardt, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
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Okay...first, it's not a "render"; it's a PERSPECTIVE.
Second, it's not a collage; it's a photomontage. And no, it's not a poe-tae-toe, poe-tah-toe, thing. They are completely different. The former eschews and visual or material coherence, the later depends upon it.
Third, I'd like to propose that the term "render" be rendered null and void. It is counterproductive to architectural production and has helped create an entire generation of architectural students and young faculty ignorant of perspective, its practice, and its role in the development of architecture and art over the last 5 centuries.
"...the term "render" be rendered null and void." Good one.
THAT is what you took away from this article? You must be fun at gatherings.
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