{"id":107755,"date":"2020-12-09T16:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/reconstructions-architecture-and-blackness-in-america-exhibition-opens-at-moma\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:35:51","slug":"reconstructions-architecture-and-blackness-in-america-exhibition-opens-at-moma","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/reconstructions-architecture-and-blackness-in-america-exhibition-opens-at-moma\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America&#8221; Exhibit Opens at MoMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Systemic racism continues to inform the built environment of our cities through public policies, municipal planning, and architecture. The inter\u00adsection of these forces is explored in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/exhibitions\/5219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America<\/a>,\u201d at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from February 20 through May 31. Projects by 10 architects, de\u00adsigners, and artists investigate how Black cultural spaces and practices are mobilized as sites of imagination, liberation, resistance, and refusal. Among them: <em>We Outchea<\/em>, Sekou Cooke\u2019s hip\u00adhop inflected low-income housing proposal for Syracuse, New York; Germane Barnes\u2019s <em>Miami Porch Portrayals<\/em>, an examination of built forms adopted by African and Caribbean diasporas in the city; and Emanuel Admassu\u2019s <em>Wiregrass WAHO<\/em>, which connects the slave trade to the settling and urbanization of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-Reconstructions-Architecture-and-Blackness-in-America-MoMA-idx201201_blips03-12.20.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of an urban landscape\" width=\"770\" height=\"498\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/498;\" \/><figcaption><em>We Outchea\u00a0<\/em>by Sekou Cooke.\u00a0Image courtesy of\u00a0Sekou Cooke.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-Reconstructions-Architecture-and-Blackness-in-America-MoMA-idx201201_blips04-12.20.jpg\" alt=\"A drawing of a Miami porch with a Black face painted on the roof \" width=\"770\" height=\"843\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/843;\" \/><figcaption><em>Miami Porch Portrayals\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Germane Barnes.\u00a0Image courtesy of\u00a0Germane Barnes.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-Reconstructions-Architecture-and-Blackness-in-America-MoMA-idx201201_blips05-12.20.jpg\" alt=\"An installation in a field of wheat called Wiregrass\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/578;\" \/><figcaption><em>Wiregrass WAHO<\/em> by AD\u2014WO. Image courtesy of AD\u2014WO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does systemic racism continue to inform the built environment? 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