Harlemworld: Metropolis As Metaphor

2004

Project Partners:

Studio Museum in Harlem

Project background and outcomes:

This Studio Museum exhibition and catalog featured architects and designers exploring place as a symbol through early gentrification in Harlem. The exhibition examined the neighborhood —home of jazz and street preachers, uprisings and gentrification— as inspiration for twenty-first-century urbanist and architectural thinking. Inviting seventeen prominent Black architects to present proposals for various Harlem sites, the exhibition offered a multimedia meditation on public space. Photographs by Harlem chroniclers including Alice Attie and James VanDerZee were also featured; the catalog includes essays by Thelma Golden, Greg Tate, Mabel O. Wilson, and others.

Images courtesy Studio Museum in Harlem