MABEL O. WILSON: 'OTHER MONUMENTALITIES'

Guest lecture by Mabel O. Wilson, professor at Columbia GSAPP and principal of Studio &. The talk addresses the formation of style, race, and nationalism in architecture by especially focusing on the Smithsonian (1855) and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) by David Adjaye.
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.
Introduction by Björn Ehrlemark
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Recorded at the KTH School of Architecture on April 16 2015. For information about upcoming public events, lectures and exhibitions, please visit or website our social media outlets:
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