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This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural(...)
Dark space: architecture, representation, black identity
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This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and clichés to communicate significance, demonstrating "Africanisms" through form and symbolism?but there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of "African American architecture," and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.
Architectural Theory
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Pouvons-nous décoloniser les foires du livre d'art ? Est-il possible de décentraliser les savoirs et déconstruire les privilèges dans ces domaines ? «Décoloniser les foires du livre d'art» propose de repenser les structures et les imaginaires qui encadrent actuellement l'organisation des foires du livre d'art. Ce guide tente de faire entendre de nouvelles voix pour aider(...)
Decolonizing art book fairs : Pratiques de l'édition indépendante dans les Sud(s)
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Pouvons-nous décoloniser les foires du livre d'art ? Est-il possible de décentraliser les savoirs et déconstruire les privilèges dans ces domaines ? «Décoloniser les foires du livre d'art» propose de repenser les structures et les imaginaires qui encadrent actuellement l'organisation des foires du livre d'art. Ce guide tente de faire entendre de nouvelles voix pour aider à déconstruire les frontières entre Nord(s) et Sud(s) en mettant l'accent sur les pratiques et les initiatives du continent africain et de sa diaspora. Un manifeste pour la décolonisation de l'édition et des foires du livre d'art (un ensemble de textes et d'entretiens inédits avec des artistes, des auteurs et des éditeurs du continent africain et d'ailleurs qui dresse un état des lieux des pratiques et ouvre de nouvelles voies pour décentrer l'édition d'art).
Art Theory
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The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled "The laboratory of the future," is conceived as a kind of workshop at which architects present examples from their practices reflecting on themes of decolonization and decarbonization. The biennale also shines a spotlight on Africa and the African Diaspora, with 89 participants, over half of whom are of African descent. Volume(...)
Biennale Architettura 2023: The laboratory of the future
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The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled "The laboratory of the future," is conceived as a kind of workshop at which architects present examples from their practices reflecting on themes of decolonization and decarbonization. The biennale also shines a spotlight on Africa and the African Diaspora, with 89 participants, over half of whom are of African descent. Volume I of its catalog is dedicated to the International Exhibition, curated by Ghanaian Scottish architect Lesley Lokko. Projects by each participant are accompanied by a critical text and biographical notes and a rich plate section. Volume II presents the National Participations and the Collateral Events, with illustrated texts that delve into the projects presented in the Pavilions and the Collateral Exhibitions on display in the Giardini, the Arsenale and various locations throughout Venice.
Biennial
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Biblical in origin, the Sukkah is a fascinating 1,500-year-old Jewish ritual of construction and habitation. Erected for only one week in the fall, its premise is paradoxical, as it encompasses issues of both diaspora and belonging. The construction guidelines are as follows: a Sukkah must have at least two-and-a-half walls and a thatched roof through which the stars are(...)
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Home is anywhere: Jewish culture and the architecture of the Sukkah
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Biblical in origin, the Sukkah is a fascinating 1,500-year-old Jewish ritual of construction and habitation. Erected for only one week in the fall, its premise is paradoxical, as it encompasses issues of both diaspora and belonging. The construction guidelines are as follows: a Sukkah must have at least two-and-a-half walls and a thatched roof through which the stars are visible. Here, Mimi Levy Lipis' photographs record examples of contemporary Sukkah architecture from Europe, Israel and the U.S. These include a Sukkah on a truck parked in front of a restaurant in Manhattan; Sukkot on lonely parking lots in London; a Sukkah built for eternity in Berlin; criss-cross stacked booths in Jerusalem; and Sukkot made of the same fabric in London and Tel Aviv.
Nick Waplington: settlement
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The book investigates the topography of Jewish identity in the West Bank, which is in conflict not only with the Palestinian majority but also with mainstream Israeli society: While all the settlers are Jewish, and almost all are Israeli citizens, many are not natives of Israel. Most of the men and women photographed by Waplington are immigrants who arrived in the West(...)
Nick Waplington: settlement
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The book investigates the topography of Jewish identity in the West Bank, which is in conflict not only with the Palestinian majority but also with mainstream Israeli society: While all the settlers are Jewish, and almost all are Israeli citizens, many are not natives of Israel. Most of the men and women photographed by Waplington are immigrants who arrived in the West Bank from the United States, South Africa, Australia, the UK, the former Soviet Union, and other parts of the wider Jewish diaspora. The exact number of settlements cannot be determined with accuracy, as both construction and demolition take place regularly throughout the region. In general, however, the presence of Jewish settlers in the West Bank is entrenched, and their building projects continue with the support of the state of Israel.
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Ellis Island
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« Ce que moi, Georges Perec, je suis venu questionner ici, c’est l’errance, la dispersion, la diaspora. Ellis Island est pour moi le lieu même de l’exil, c’est-à-dire le lieu de l’absence de lieu, le non-lieu, le nulle part. c’est en ce sens que ces images me concernent, me fascinent, m’impliquent, comme si la recherche de mon identité passait par l’appropriation de ce(...)
Ellis Island
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« Ce que moi, Georges Perec, je suis venu questionner ici, c’est l’errance, la dispersion, la diaspora. Ellis Island est pour moi le lieu même de l’exil, c’est-à-dire le lieu de l’absence de lieu, le non-lieu, le nulle part. c’est en ce sens que ces images me concernent, me fascinent, m’impliquent, comme si la recherche de mon identité passait par l’appropriation de ce lieu-dépotoir où des fonctionnaires harassés baptisaient des Américains à la pelle. ce qui pour moi se trouve ici ce ne sont en rien des repères, des racines ou des traces, mais le contraire : quelque chose d’informe, à la limite du dicible, quelque chose que je peux nommer clôture, ou scission, ou coupure, et qui est pour moi très intimement et très confusément lié au fait même d’être juif ».
Literature and poetry
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This book is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the “colonial gaze” as its starting point, Events of the Social looks at the diverse complexity of the nineteenth-century archive through a selection of vintage portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages. Three(...)
Events of the social: portraiture and collective agency
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This book is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the “colonial gaze” as its starting point, Events of the Social looks at the diverse complexity of the nineteenth-century archive through a selection of vintage portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages. Three generations of African artists from the 1940s till now then chart the changing features of African societies through portraiture, exploring notions of the self, gender, sexuality, race, social status and politics. The book also examines landscape and the built environment, showing how architecture and spatial planning convey social order and ideology while reflecting experiences of migration, colonialism, war and industrialization. Another group of artists, born after the mid-1970s, explores issues of social identity, lineage, questions of belonging and personal experiences.
Photography Collections
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In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two(...)
Binational urbanism: on the road to paradise
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In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two homes and two nations. "Binational urbanists" come from all strata of society, from the working class to the highly educated and cosmopolitan creative classes. For this volume, German architect Bernd Upmeyer interviewed people of Turkish origin living in Germany who commute regularly between cities in Germany and Turkey. From these interviews the author develops a theory of binational urbanism, concluding that it has the potential to become one of the most interesting forms of life in the 21st century.
Urban Theory
Among a sea of influences
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This publication documents a series of workshops and conversations hosted by Wendy’s Subway and organized by English-Arabic bilingual magazine Makzhin editor Mirene Arsanios on questions of formative literary influences. Three female Arab writers were invited to choose and discuss ten books that shaped their understanding of poetry and translation. Notwithstanding the(...)
Among a sea of influences
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This publication documents a series of workshops and conversations hosted by Wendy’s Subway and organized by English-Arabic bilingual magazine Makzhin editor Mirene Arsanios on questions of formative literary influences. Three female Arab writers were invited to choose and discuss ten books that shaped their understanding of poetry and translation. Notwithstanding the difficulty of the task, Marwa Helal, Mona Kareem, and Iman Mersal played along, selecting—among a sea of influences—authors and/or translators whose works were key to their own practice, and to their embodied understanding of what it means to write in Arabic from a female perspective. Asking what kind of writings are/were available to them, and which books or translations unseated their understanding of the world, Helal, Kareem, and Mersal discuss writing within the diaspora and across borders, radical publishing and translation networks, cultural and linguistic translation, vernacular language as resistance, and more.
Literature and poetry
They laid the foundation
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Beginning in the 1920s, and especially after the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws in the 1930s, more than 130 Jewish architects chose to leave their native Germany and begin afresh in Palestine. Many of them, including Alex Baerwald and Harry Rosenthal, left behind significant buildings that were already central to the urban image of Berlin. Nevertheless, upon(...)
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
September 2007, New York
They laid the foundation
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Beginning in the 1920s, and especially after the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws in the 1930s, more than 130 Jewish architects chose to leave their native Germany and begin afresh in Palestine. Many of them, including Alex Baerwald and Harry Rosenthal, left behind significant buildings that were already central to the urban image of Berlin. Nevertheless, upon arriving in their new desert home, completely unaccustomed to the climate, the culture or the language, these Bauhaus-era repatriates set about laying the foundations of a new society with amazing vigor. This volume, assembled by the Israeli architect Myra Warhaftig, provides comprehensive documentation of works by this first generation of Jewish-Palestinean architects, including kibbutzim, villages and cities with housing developments, hospitals, schools, universities, theaters, administrative buildings, etc. It also includes documentation of the lives and works of many of the most entrepreneurial individuals to escape in the diaspora, who, along with their descendents, laid the foundations of modern-day Israel.
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East