Unknown, Unknown: Provisional Architectures of Memory

Mabel O. Wilson, Director of Institue for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia GSAPP

5:00pm PST Friday, February 21st, 2025

Business Rotunda (03-213)

 

Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia. Wilson has authored of Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016), Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012) and co-edited the volume Race and Modern Architecture: From the Enlightenment to Today (2020). With her practice Studio&, she was a member of the design team for the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. For the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, she was co-curator of the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.