American Roundtable is an Architectural League initiative, bringing together on-the-
ground perspectives on the condition of American communities and what they need to
thrive going forward. At the project’s center are nine commissioned reports. Each report
is a powerful portrait of a community, using the lens of the built environment and
drawing on the knowledge and perspectives of report editors and collaborators ranging
from designers to hydrologists to poets. Individually and collectively, the reports compel
important questions: about power, justice, neglect, imagination, and agency. And they
make vivid the vastness and variety of the American landscape, and the ineffable,
enduring, profound importance of place.
The communities explored in American Roundtable are: Africatown, Alabama; Along the
Lumbee River, North Carolina; Appalachia, West Virginia; Brownsville, Texas;
Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Rio Grande, New Mexico; River
Valley, Maine; South Beach, Washington; and Youngstown-Warren-Lordstown, Ohio.
This introductory program and panel discussion, captured in the video above,
assembled the editors of the nine American Roundtable reports to discuss the question:
how does one go about understanding a place?
Learn more about the American Roundtable initiative: https://archleague.org/project/american-roundtable/
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