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NMAAHC launches initiative to celebrate the work of Black architects
Jun 8, '20 11:38 AM EST
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has launched Rendering Visible, a digital collecting initiative intended to celebrate the "creative production" of Black architects. Through a call for submissions, the initiative will allow the museum to to select architectural...	View full entry
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DC's African American History and Culture Museum allowing walk-ins in April
If you still haven't been able to sneak your way into the newest museum on Washington DC's National Mall, April may be your best bet. Last week, the museum announced that the month would feature Walk-Up Wednesdays, allowing people who haven't scored entry passes to go into the museum on a first-come, first-served basis, a pilot program to test no-pass entry. — hyperallergic.com
The National Museum of African American History and Culture located in Washington DC opened back in 2016, and has been solidly booked ever since. To help visitors gain entry who were unable to procure tickets, the museum is introducing Walk-Up Wednesdays for the month of April. Founding...	View full entry
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An American Story; A conversation with Phil Freelon
For this episode of Archinect Sessions, we're sharing our conversation with Phil Freelon, an architect that has dedicated his life to creating meaningful, thoughtful works of architecture that contribute to American culture and civil rights. Recent notable projects lead by Mr. Freelon include...	View full entry
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David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language
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Sep 22, '16 12:11 AM EST
I was completely moved by the corona motif. It seemed like a way to start to tell a story that moves from one continent, where people were taken, along with their cultures, and used as labor, then contributed towards making another country and new cultures. That history then continues in the decorative patterning of those panels. — New York Times
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What architecture means to Zena Howard, project leader of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
"And to me, as an African American, just realizing that this has actually come to be, that there's an actual National Museum for African American History and Culture on the Mall of Washington, D.C., and this museum should have happened years and years ago, but the realization that finally in America we're at a place where we can accept it ... It's one of the most prominent sites on the Mall. It's not somewhere tucked away. — Zena Howard, on Curbed
Architect Zena Howard talks about what first drew her to architecture, the National Museum for African American History and Culture on which she worked as Senior Project Manager, and her outlook on the status of women in architecture.More on Archinect:Read an excerpt from the new "Where Are the...	View full entry
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David Adjaye talks about woven architecture and his new D.C. museum
Adjaye is overseeing the newest installment of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's "Selects" series, which spotlights the little-known West African textiles in the museum's permanent collection. [...] It also offers the celebrated architect a chance to explore the surprising connections between textile making and building design.
"What's interesting to me is this idea of fabric and weaving as a kind of abstraction of making places that people come together in," he says. — Smithsonian.com
Related: First Look at the Museum of African American History and Culture	View full entry
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Obama to speak at African American history museum's groundbreaking
President Obama will speak at the official groundbreaking next week for the Smithsonian's new African American history museum in Washington, museum officials announced.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will be situated on the National Mall and is expected to be completed by 2015 at an estimated price cost of $500 million, half of which is expected to be paid by the government. — latimesblogs.latimes.com
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