Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America

Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor in Architecture at Columbia University.

An exploration of architecture, urbanism, Blackness and anti-Black racism in the United States. Featured projects and texts reimagine how individuals and communities have mobilised Black cultural spaces, forms, and practices as sites of imagination, liberation, resistance, and refusal

Foreword: Glenn D. Lowry, Director, MoMA Introduction: Sean Anderson and Mabel Wilson Preface: Robin D. G. Kelley Scholar Essay: Christina Sharpe, "Black Gathering" 2000 words Foundation Texts: Roberta Washington "Designing for Social Justice" 500 words Justin Garrett Moore "Design for All of the Above" 500 words Aruna d'Souza "Shack Stories" 500 words Scholar Essay: Charles Davis, "Moving Beyond Repair" 2000 words Architect Project: Emanuel Admassu, Atlanta, GA Architect Project: J. Yolande Daniels, Los Angeles, CA Foundation Texts: Audrey Petty, "Stories from Stateway Gardens" 500 words Ifeoma Ebo, "Housing for Creative Urban Alchemy" 500 words Scholar Essay: Tonya Foster, "Shotgun Houses" 2000 words Architect Project: Felecia Davis, Pittsburgh, PA Architect Project: Germane Barnes, Miami, FL Scholar Essay: Dianne Harris, "Carceral Space and Domestic Space" 2000 words Architect Project: Sekou Cooke, Syracuse, NY Documentary Photo Essay David Hartt: Langston Terrace, Washington DC by Hilyard Robinson and Paul Revere Williams Foundation Texts: Arièle Dionne-Krosnick "YMCA swimming pool" 500 words Michelle Joan Wilkinson "Imagining East Harlem" 500 words Scholar Essays: Adrienne Brown "Reconstruction's Breadth" 2000 words Milton S. F. Curry "Architecture Race Theory" 2000 words Architect Project: Mario Gooden , Nashville, TN Architect Project: V. Mitch McEwen, New Orleans, LA Architect Project: Amanda Williams, St. Louis, MO Foundation Texts: Carla Shedd, "Supply Side Criminomics" 500 words Jennifer Newsom Carruthers "A Refusal of Border" 500 words Scholar Essay: David Naguib Pellow, "Environmental Racism and the Carceral State" 2000 words Architect Project: Walter Hood, Oakland, CA Architect Project: Olalekan Jeyifous, New York, NY Bibliography Index and Credits