kristen mimms scavnicky

2020 - present

John Ruskin’s lamp of memory calls for buildings to respect the culture from which they have developed. Can we then develop a technique to reframe the architecture in the United States built on the colonization, suffering, and unpaid labor of Black and Brown people? What culture is the architecture built for if it completely ignores that history?

Placing Ichi proposes a series of images that speculate a future where existing buildings are redesigned to celebrate the heritage of African ancestors while educating present day onlookers and inspiring interactive engagement with the architecture.