News
Announcing the Black Reconstruction Collective’s Unmonument site!
Unmonument is an architectural project conceived around a nomadic sculpture conceived as an ‘exquisite corpse’ exercise, meant to refuse the traditional idea of monuments and inspire collective action. Follow the Unmonument’s travels via the new website platform.
The BRC Announces Inaugural Prize Awardees
The Black Reconstruction Collective has awarded their first prize to Chicago-based activist, artist, and photographer, Tonika Lewis Johnson, and to Bronx-based architect and theorist, Ife Salema Vanable. The BRC Prize recognizes cultural practitioners at pivotal points in their practice by acknowledging them with a $5,000 unrestricted award.
Announcing the Black Reconstruction Collective’s first staff member
Michelle Lisa Polissaint, Collective Manager!
“With Michelle's track record of empowering artists & building community, we are confident in her ability to execute the BRC's mission; to amplify knowledge production & spatial practices that further the reconstruction project.”
— J. Yolande Daniels, BRC President
On the Architecture of Equity.
For Deem Journal’s Issue Three, we had a conversation with co-founders Nu Goteh and Alice Grandoit-Šutka. This dialogue of twelve distinct voices explores how we can best understand equity as a complex design challenge that recognizes and accounts for disadvantage, damage, and liability. Together, we consider the meaning of reconstruction, the relationship
June 5, 2021
CURBED.
After MoMA, the Black Reconstruction Collective Plots Its Future Its members talk institutional change, practicing refusal, and what comes next.
By Diana Budds
May 24, 2021
Hyperallergic
In Reconstructions, Black Artists and Architects Move Beyond the Limitations of the Present
What would happen if Black people had or were currently given the time, space, energy, and funding to build alternative futures?
by Sinclair Spratley
May 20, 2021
Architect’s Newspaper
MoMA’s Reconstructions reaches toward another world
Exhibition review By Jess Myers
April 21, 2021
Fast Company
These Artists formed a collective to reimagine Black architecture
Interview by Nate Berg
April 20, 2021
Curbed
MoMA’s ‘Reconstructions’ Show Changed My Relationship to Space and Cities
exhibition review By Kimberly Drew
April 19, 2021
ARTFORUM
FREE FORMS
Jay Cephas on “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America”
March 31, 2021
Art in America
IMAGINING THE EMANCIPATED CITY
exhibition review By Julian Lucas.
March 31, 2021
DeZeen
MoMA curators pick five highlights from Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
March 25, 2021
Boston Globe
What if American cities were built for Blackness?
Exhibition review By Murray Whyte.
March 25, 2021
CityLab
Confronting Architecture’s Complicity with Racism
In “Reconstructions” at the Museum of Modern Art, African-American designers and artists envision an architecture of Blackness that grapples with the field’s troubled history. Exhibition review by James S. Russell.
March 18, 2021
Architectural Record
The Legacy of Racism in the Making of Cities and Communities
“The highly anticipated exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, takes its name from the historic two decades that followed the bloody Civil War. Yet, despite the reference, the show (through May 31) isn’t a call to a return— the aim is to reflect on the legacy of a country attempting to redefine itself.” Exhibition Review by Alicia Olushola Ajayi
March 19, 2021
Los Angeles Times
Architecture’s whiteness by design can change. Mabel Wilson shows us how in MoMA show
“Modern architecture builds the world for the white subject, maintaining the logics of racism while also imagining a future world in which nonwhite subjects remain exploitable and marginal,” Wilson wrote in that essay. “The power of the architecture and its archive is to produce ‘whiteness’ by design.” by Carolina A. Miranda
March 11, 2021
New York Times
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.” by Michael Kimmelman
March 11, 2021
Monocle on Design
Podcast Interview
Visit the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition in New York City. The show’s co-curators Mabel Wilson and Sean Anderson give Monocle’s Henry Rees Sheridan a tour.
March 2, 2021
The Guardian
How can architecture help rather than harm blackness?
In a new exhibition, the damaging impact architecture has often had on communities of colour is explored along with ideas of how to move forward. Exhibition Review by Matt Shaw
March 1, 2021
Cultured Magazine
MoMA’s “Reconstructions” Takes a Hard Look at Racism in the Built Environment
Curators Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson discuss the future of equitable architectural possibilities as proposed by ten creatives in ten city cases. Interview by Elizabeth Fazzare.
February 22, 2021
The Architect’s Newspaper
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America finds transformative potential in the collective, Exhibition Review by Jess Meyers.
February 12, 2021
Archinect
New MoMA exhibition investigates architecture, Blackness, and anti-Black racism in America
January 31, 2021
Culture Type
What to Look Forward to in 2021: More Than 30 Exhibitions, Books, and Events Focused on African American Art.
January 20, 2020
Architectural Digest
Brooklyn-Based Artist Olalekan Jeyifous Imagines a New York Transformed by Climate Change
February 22, 2021
The Architect’s Newspaper
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America finds transformative potential in the collective, Exhibition Review by Jess Meyers.
February 12, 2021
Archinect
New MoMA exhibition investigates architecture, Blackness, and anti-Black racism in America
January 31, 2021
Culture Type
What to Look Forward to in 2021: More Than 30 Exhibitions, Books, and Events Focused on African American Art.
January 20, 2020
Architectural Digest
Brooklyn-Based Artist Olalekan Jeyifous Imagines a New York Transformed by Climate Change
January 12, 2021
AZURE Magazine
10 Must-See Exhibitions of 2021
December 9, 2020
Interior Design
November 13, 2020
The Architect’s Newspaper
November 2020
Pin Up Magazine
Issue 29: Revolution
Reconstructions Architecture and Blackness in America