Mabel O. Wilson: 'Other Monumentalities: Race, Nation and the Museum' (Apr 16)
Welcome to a public guest lecture by Mabel O. Wilson, professor at Columbia GSAPP and principal of Studio &. The talk will address the formation of style, race, and nationalism in architecture by especially focusing on the Smithsonian (1855) and the new African American Museum (2016) by David Adjaye. Our student-run Thursday's bar will be open for the occasion.
Tid: To 2015-04-16 kl 18.00
Plats: Triangeln (entrance foyer), KTH Arkitekturskolan, Östermalmsgatan 26
African American Museum (2016) by David Adjaye (left) and the Smithsonian (1855).
MABEL O. WILSON
Mabel O. Wilson
’s design experiments, scholarly research and advocacy projects focus upon space, politics and cultural memory in black America; raciality, technology, and aesthetics; and the globalization of architectural practice. As the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor, she teaches architectural design and architectural theory/history courses at
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
(GSAPP), where she also co-directs GSAPP’s Global Africa Lab and the Architecture, Space, and Politics Project (ASAP). Her recent book
Negro Building – Black Americans and the World of Fairs and Museums
studies how the spaces of world’s fairs, emancipation expositions, and grassroots public museums became sites to imagine Afro-modernity.
The student-run Thursday's bar ( Arkitekturbaren ) will be open for the occasion.
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