How Can Blackness Construct America?
A new collective of Black architects and artists, formed out of a show now at MoMA, aims to “reclaim the larger civic promise of architecture.”
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“Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh’s Hill District,” by Felecia Davis, who is a member of the Black Reconstruction Collective.Credit...Felecia Davis
What’s below is a conversation with members of the Black Reconstruction Collective, which came together during the past year and a half, in tandem with an exhibition now at the Museum of Modern Art called “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.” The collective’s members are the 10 architects, artists and designers in the exhibition.