Mabel O. Wilson
Mabel O. Wilson at the book launch for When Ivory Towers were Black at Columbia GSAPP
Mabel O. Wilson at the book launch for When Ivory Towers were Black at Columbia GSAPP
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Atlanta Georgia
NationalityAfrican American
Alma materUniversity of Virginia (BA)
Columbia University (MArch)
New York University (PhD)
OccupationArchitect

Mabel O. Wilson (born 1963) is an American architect, designer, and scholar. She is the founder of Studio& and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Education

Wilson received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the University of Virginia in 1985, a Master's of Architecture at Columbia University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University in 2007.

Career

Wilson is the co-founder of Studio &, an architecture firm exploring different facets of art, architecture, and cultural history.[1] Her research and writing explore race in contemporary art, film, and new media; the social production of space; and politics and cultural memory in Black America.

Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and is also a professor in the African American and African Diasporic Studies Department. She serves as the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and co-directs Global Africa Lab.

She has taught courses in architectural design, history, and theory since 2007.[2] Also at Columbia, she is the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS)[3] and, alongside Mario Gooden, is the co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL). Wilson is a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?)—a project that examines "the links between labor, architecture and the global networks that form around building buildings."[4]

In 2021, Wilson co-organized the 'Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America' exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.[5] It is the first exhibition at MoMA to feature a collective body of work by 10 African-American architects, artists and designers [6] trying to “reclaim the larger civic promise of architecture,” as stated by the New York Times.[7]

Books

Wilson has written books including Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Co-Editor with Irene Cheng and Charles L. Davis II), forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020 (ISBN 978-0-822-94605-2), Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, 2016 (ISBN 978-1-588-34569-1), and Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, University of California Press, 2012 (ISBN 978-0-520-26842-5).

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Mabel O. Wilson". Columbia GSAPP.
  2. ↑ "Mabel O. Wilson". Columbia University GSAPP. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Mabel Wilson | IRAAS Institute for Research in African-American Studies".
  4. ↑ "About". Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?). Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Architecture's whiteness by design can change. Mabel Wilson shows us how in MoMA show". Los Angeles Times. 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  6. ↑ "Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  7. ↑ Kimmelman, Michael (2021-03-11). "How Can Blackness Construct America?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  8. ↑ "Society of Architectural Historians Names the 2021 Class of Fellows". www.sah.org. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  9. ↑ "Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  10. ↑ Mavros, Kara (6 September 2019). "Architectural Record's 2019 Women in Architecture Award Winners Announced". Architectural Record. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  11. ↑ "National Gallery of Art's World-Renowned Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) Announces 2015–2016 Academic Year Appointments". National Gallery of Art. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "USA Fellows". United States Artists. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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