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The exhibition and accompanying publication will examine
contemporary architecture in the context of how systemic
racism has fostered violent histories of discrimination and
RECONSTRUCTIONS: injustice in the United States. Such conditions have structured
and continue to inform the built environment of American cities
ARCHITECTURE through public policies, municipal planning, and architecture,
AND BL ACKNESS IN with specific repercussions for African American and African
diaspora communities. Projects will explore how people have
AMERICA mobilized Black cultural spaces, forms, and practices as sites of

The Museum of Modern Art imagination, liberation, resistance, and refusal.

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
is organized by Sean Anderson, Associate Curator,
Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA, and Mabel
The Museum of Modern Art announces the fourth installment O. Wilson, Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor, Columbia
of the Issues in Contemporary Architecture series, University, with Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Curatorial Assistant,
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA.
an investigation into the intersections of architecture,
Blackness and anti–Black racism in the American context.
Germane Barnes. Miami Porch Portrayals. 2020 Digital print collage
17x17in (43.2x43.2 cm). Image courtesy of the artist. The Museum of
Modern Art, New York

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