Germane Barnes

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Germane Barnes is an American architect, designer [1] and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Miami in Florida. [2] Barnes was a 2021 recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture.

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Early life and education

Barnes was born and raised in the West Side of Chicago, IL. [3] [4] He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture in 2008. [5] After graduation, he worked in an architecture practice in Cape Town, South Africa on pro-bono projects for underprivileged communities. [5] [6] Upon return to the United States, he attended Graduate School and received a Master of Architecture degree from Woodbury University in Burbank, California, where he was awarded the Graduate Thesis Prize. [7] [8]

Career

Continuing his professional experience, he became a designer in residence for the Opa Locka Community Development Corporation in Florida, providing design solutions for communities in need. [5] [8] [9] During the residency he created community events based around the abandoned buildings in the Triangle area of Opa Locka, and helped residents transform an abandoned lot into a community park. [4] [10] He later established his own practice Studio Barnes, LLC in Miami. [11]

Barnes received a research grant from the Graham Foundation in 2018 for this project proposal 'Sacred Stoops: Typological Studies of Black Congregational Spaces'. [12] Within this scholarship, he was able to analyze five American cities (Atlanta, Washington D.C., Chicago, Detroit, Houston) with the focus on architectural typologies in relationship to African-American culture. [13] In February 2021, his work was part of the MoMA Exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. [14] It was MoMA’s first architecture exhibition highlighting the synthesis between architecture and African-American cultures and communities. [15] He was a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective, a group created by members of the MoMA show. [16] New York Times' Art and Design critic Michael Kimmelman wrote that the group's intention is to “reclaim the larger civic promise of architecture.” [17]

Barnes has been commissioned by Jack Guthman, chairman of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, to create work for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. [18]

Awards

Barnes was awarded the 2021 Wheelwright Prize by Harvard University Graduate School of Design. [19] The award is aimed to support early career creatives within their design research. [20] He was also a recipient of the 2021 Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome [21] [22] and was awarded the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. [23]

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  4. 1 2 Bubil, Harold. "HAROLD BUBIL: Asking big questions of architectural establishment". The Ledger.
  5. 1 2 3 Elfrink, Tim (24 November 2015). "Germane Barnes Aims to Revive Opa-locka Without Gentrifying It". Miami New Times.
  6. ↑ "Lecture Series: Germane Barnes | Princeton University School of Architecture". soa.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  7. ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: Germane Barnes". Woodbury University. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  8. 1 2 Sisson, Patrick (9 November 2015). "How Germane Barnes is reviving a forgotten Miami suburb". Curbed.
  9. ↑ Peinado, Fernando. "Opa-locka envisions itself as a future thriving arts district". miamiherald.com.
  10. ↑ Seidman, Carrie. "Giving Newtown a voice — and listening to it". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
  11. ↑ Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "RECONSTRUCTIONS PORTRAIT: Germane Barnes on Reframing Blackness". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  12. ↑ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Germane Barnes". www.grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  13. ↑ Burch, Audra D. S.; Lawrence, Wayne (2018-12-04). "On the Front Porch, Black Life in Full View (Published 2018)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  14. ↑ "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.
  15. ↑ "Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  16. ↑ Berg, Nate (9 April 2021). "These artists formed a collective to reimagine Black architecture". Fast Company.
  17. ↑ Kimmelman, Michael (2021-03-11). "How Can Blackness Construct America?". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  18. ↑ "Hood Design Studio, Outpost Office, Studio Barnes tapped for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial". The Architect’s Newspaper. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  19. ↑ "Germane Barnes Awarded the 2021 Wheelwright Prize". SURFACE. 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  20. ↑ "Harvard GSD shortlists four architects for 2021 Wheelwright Prize". Harvard Graduate School of Design. 2021-04-07. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  21. ↑ "Announcing the 2021–22 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows | American Academy in Rome". www.aarome.org. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  22. ↑ "Germane Barnes, Phoebe Lickwar among winners of the 2021–22 Rome Prize". The Architect’s Newspaper. 23 April 2021.
  23. ↑ www.architectmagazine.com https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/winners-of-the-2021-architectural-league-prize-for-young-architects-designers-announced_o . Retrieved 2021-05-14.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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