Emanuel Admassu
Emanuel Admassu is an architect and assistant professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation[1] in New York City, NY. His architectural practice WO-AD, which he co-founded with partner and architect Jen Wood, is based in Providence, Rhode Island. Admassu was previously an assistant professor within the architecture department at the Rhode Island School of Design[2] and has also taught design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3] He is co-founder and member of the Black Reconstitution Collective. As a collective, they exhibited their first show on Black architects and race in MoMA's Architecture and Design department’s 89-year history.[4][5][6][7]
Early life and education
Emanuel Admassu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and moved to Atlanta, GA during his early childhood.[8][9] He received a Bachelor of Architecture at Southern Polytechnic State University, and holds a Master of Advanced Architectural Design and Advanced Architectural Research degree from Columbia University.[10]
Career
His practice AD—WO has received the Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Award in 2021[11] for their contribution to the discipline of architecture. Their projects include work across the globe in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States while challenging typologies of social housing, residential design, and civic infrastructure.[12] Most recent includes the analysis of constructed identities of two urban marketplaces: Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam, and Merkato in Addis Ababa.[13]
Admassu is part of the 2021 'Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[14] The exhibition was co-curated by Mabel O. Wilson[15] Sean Anderson and featured 10 architects, designers, and artists whose work engages with the history and future of African-American culture in relationship to architecture and the built environment within the United States.[16] It was the first ever MoMA exhibition including only African-American creatives.[17] Jay Cephas of the contemporary art magazine Artforum writes about the exhibition: " “Reconstructions” includes a fourteen-hour online course on how race and racism have shaped the built environment, bearing witness to not just the work of ten artists, architects, and designers, but also to the ordinary spatial practices of Black folk. As much as the exhibition is about space, it’s even more about time—about the present moment, and about the urgent need for change."[18]
Public Talks and Interviews
Admassu has been a frequent speaker and lecturer at several academic institutions across the U.S. as well as giving frequent interviews about his work including Columbia University [19], Wentworth Institute of Technology [20], Pin Up Magazine [21], Rice University [22], Georgia Institute of Technology [23], University of Southern California [24], Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Conference[25].
References
- ↑ "Emanuel Admassu". Columbia GSAPP. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "Emanuel Admassu | RISD". www.risd.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "Emanuel Admassu". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "The Legacy of Racism in the Making of Cities and Communities". www.architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ Budds, Diana (2021-06-07). "After MoMA, the Black Reconstruction Collective Plots Its Future in Architecture". Curbed. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ Berg, Nate (2021-04-09). "These artists formed a collective to reimagine Black architecture". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ Berg, Nate (2021-04-09). "These artists formed a collective to reimagine Black architecture". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "RECONSTRUCTIONS PORTRAIT: Emanuel Admassu on the global African diasporic". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "How Can We Reclaim the Story of a Place? | Magazine | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
- ↑ "AD–WO". www.ad-wo.com. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "Rice Design Alliance 2021 Spotlight Award + Lecture: AD–WO". CultureMap Houston. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ "Jen Wood and Emanuel Admassu | Rice". arch.rice.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "POSTPONED until Spring 2021 / On African Urbanism(s): Informal Infrastructures and Urban Citizenship". Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ Facebook; Twitter; options, Show more sharing; Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; Email; URLCopied!, Copy Link; Print (2021-03-19). "Architecture's whiteness by design can change. Mabel Wilson shows us how in MoMA show". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ Jeffers, Kristen (2021-06-04). "What MoMA's Architecture and Blackness in America Exhibit Can Teach About Black Spaces". House Beautiful. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ Kimmelman, Michael (2021-03-11). "How Can Blackness Construct America?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ↑ "Jay Cephas on "Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America"". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ Amale Andraos in Conversation with Emanuel Admassu, retrieved 2021-06-14
- ↑ Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology on Facebook Watch, retrieved 2021-06-14
- ↑ Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "RECONSTRUCTIONS PORTRAIT: Emanuel Admassu on the global African diasporic". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ Alliance, Rice Design (2021-04-26), 2021 Spotlight Award + Lecture with AD–WO: "Immeasurability", retrieved 2021-06-14
- ↑ "Black Reconstruction Collective Panel Resources | School of Architecture". arch.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ "MoMA Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America / Black Reconstruction Collective". USC School of Architecture. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ "National Architecture Conference speakers to challenge the way we think about design". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
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