Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Germane Barnes, “Where This Flower Blooms”

Name: Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Germane Barnes, “Where This Flower Blooms”
Start: 2024-10-07T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138

Schedule

Mon Oct 07 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138 | Cambridge, MA

Chicago-born architect and professor Germane Barnes explores the connections between identity and the built environment. Barnes uses research, design, and speculation to mine the social and political agency of architecture and uncover spatial histories, presents, and futures of Black self-determination. Barnes’ Wheelwright Prize lecture documents his research of the Western architecture canon through the lens of the African Diaspora. In particular, he examines how Eurocentric histories of classical architecture have neglected the contributions of North African building practices throughout Italy during antiquity. Barnes will present Columnar Disorder, his counter-narrative to the well-established legacy of the classical triumvirate: the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders.
Join us on October 8th for a conversation between Germane Barnes and members of the Wheelwright Prize Jury.