Event Description:
In 2021, Germane Barnes was named the winner of the Wheelwright Prize, a grant to support investigative approaches to contemporary architecture with an emphasis on globally-minded research. Barnes was among four remarkable finalists selected from more than 150 applicants hailing from 45 countries. With his winning project, Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture, Barnes proposed to examine Roman and Italian architecture through the lens of non-white constructors, studying how spaces have been transformed through the material contributions of the African Diaspora while creating new architectural possibilities that emerge within investigations of Blackness. As with past Wheelwright winners, the prize funded two years of Barnes’s research and travel.
Following the opening of his first solo museum exhibition, Columnar Disorder, on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 21, 2024 – January 27, 2025, Barnes will reflect on his research exploring the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment in conversation with the jury of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize.
The 2021 Wheelwright Prize jury includes: David Brown, Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago; David Hartt, Associate Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania; Mark Lee, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD; Megan Panzano, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Program Director of Undergraduate Architecture Studies at Harvard GSD; Sumayya Vally, founder and principal of Counterspace Studio; and Sarah M. Whiting, Dean and Josep LluÃs Sert Professor of Architecture at Harvard GSD.
Participants:
Germane Barnes
David Brown
David Hartt
Mark Lee
Megan Panzano
Sumayya Vally
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