Black Reconstruction Collective

De Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) be American architecture collective. Na dem form de BRC by participants insyd de Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America project which was exhibited in the spring of 2021.

Black Reconstruction Collective

organization

Year dem found am	2019
Country	United States
Dema official website	https://www.blackreconstructioncollective.org/

History

Formation

Na de immediate origins spring from a 2018 meeting between Sean Anderson, an MoMA curator, den Mabel O. Wilson, author of de essay White by Design from Among Others: Blackness at Moma, from wich result insyd MoMA curators dey biz de questions: “How can architecture address a user that has never been accurately defined? How do we construct blackness?”. Na dis lead to an inaugural meeting insyd September 2019 make dem discuss de planned Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at de MoMA plus ten potential exhibitors resolve make dem form de BRC, na dem inspire by a presentation from Saidiya Hartman den Tina Campt den dema formation of de Practicing Refusal Collective Black feminist forum. Na dem form de BRC by Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, den Amanda Williams wey dem all place newly commissioned works insyd de exhibition.

Read further

• Hartt, David; Browne, Thom; Zeiba, Drew (February 2021). Museum of Modern Art (ed.). "Reconstructions special". Pin-Up Magazine. New York. OCLC 1246781204.
• MIT Architecture (13 January 2021). The Black Reconstruction Collective — Black Futures. Fall 2020 Lecture Series. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 25 June 2021 – via YouTube.
• MoMA (24 February 2021). "Manifesting Statement of the Black Reconstruction Collective". Museum of Modern Arts. Manifesting statement. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.