What’s Happening: The Harvard University Graduate School of Design has named Germane Barnes the winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize.
The Download: The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s annual Wheelwright Prize awards $100,000 to a promising early-career architect who’s pursuing travel-based research that may leave a wide-ranging impact on the field. Previous winners have circled the globe to unpack a wide range of social, cultural, environmental, and technological issues, such as Aleksandra Jaeschke’s study of greenhouse architecture and Daniel Fernández Pascual’s research into the intertidal zone.
This year, Harvard GSD selected architect Germane Barnes, whose proposal, “Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture,” examines classical Roman and Italian architecture through contributions of the African diaspora. Barnes will start his research this summer, with archival research geared toward generating an index of the portico typology in Italy and North
Courtesy of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Studio Barnes
Barnes was among four finalists selected from more than 150 applicants, hailing from 45 countries. “The past year has shown the world that marginalized communities offer more than a cursory look, but a thorough excavation of their contributions and legacies,” Barnes says. “As a Black architect I have struggled with the absence of my identity in the profession, and there have been moments where I have questioned my talent and ideologies because they failed to gain recognition in prominent architecture circles. To be selected as the winner of this year’s Wheelwright Prize provides credibility that Blackness is a viable and critical discourse, and strengthens my resolve and confidence in my professional trajectory. My hope is that my win and the work that follows it will be a necessary accelerant to provide more opportunities and exposure to Black practitioners and researchers.”
‘Why Stanford Should Clone Itself’
David L. Kirp, a professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, begins an essay last month in
The New York Times with the evidence that the status quo is unfair. A 2017 study showed that at 38 colleges, including five in the Ivy League, more students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the bottom 60 percent. These hyper-rich youths are a jaw-dropping 77 times as likely to attend an Ivy League college as those whose parents’ income is in the bottom 20 percent, he writes.
He cites public universities that have responded in his opinion, appropriately to the situation. Most enterprises where demand far outstrips supply would seize the opportunity to expand, Kirp writes. A handful of public universities like Arizona State have done precisely that. Last fall, Arizona State enrolled more than 128,000 undergraduate and graduate students at campuses across the state and online. Even as
Design Museum
The story of the trainer is the story of pop culture, sporting performance, hype, globalisation, industrial design, technical innovation, late capitalism and the internet. It is a story for our times. By 2025, the trainer industry is, according to market analysts Grand View Research, predicted to be worth £68bn. And it’s not just about churning out cheap, lightweight running shoes. The trainer has penetrated haute couture Dior now collaborates with Nike! and establishment art institutions like Sotheby’s clamour for rare models that can fetch hundreds of thousands on the auctioneer’s block. And now, a new exhibition aims to untangle the sporting, cultural and design relevance of trainers, to explain where the phenomenon came from and where it’s going.“If you think about putting on an exhibition with work that people perceive as ‘artwork’ and have collected for many years, it’s a slightly more straightforward process than looking at something that i
Enrique Márquez Named Director of Music at Interlochen Center for the Arts
Márquez joins Interlochen from the Harvard Department of Music, where he oversaw Music Department concerts and events.by Chloe Rabinowitz
Interlochen Center for the Arts announced today that Enrique Márquez has been named Director of Music. In this role, Márquez will lead music programming, pedagogy, and curricula at Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen Online, and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Márquez begins his new role June 1. An accomplished educator, arts leader, musician, and Interlochen alumnus whose career in the arts spans continents and cultures, Enrique brings a unique global perspective to this position, said Interlochen Center for the Arts President Trey Devey. We re thrilled that he will return to Interlochen to energize and guide our music programs into the future.