![]() Despite her extraordinary academic pedigree, the 58-year-old is highly engaging in person, and decidedly down to earth (she loves to collect snow globes). As a designer, Wilson is the founder of Studio &, an interdisciplinary firm whose projects include the recent Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, codesigned for the campus of Wilson’s alma mater, the University of Virginia. The author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums as well as a co-author of Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present, she was recently awarded the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize for her work expanding the narrative on Black contribution to the built environment, a long-term project that includes the seminal MoMA exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America (see PIN–UP 29). While her work focuses on the built environment, Wilson’s PhD was in American Studies, and her humanities background is threaded throughout her practice. Wilson uses architecture and architectural theory as a lens to engage with the world. How does one make something invisible visible? Architect, educator, academic, and author Mabel O. The buildings that dress neighborhoods and make up the cities that we live in, the clothing we wear, the language we use, and the standards and laws that we inflict upon one another. Architecture is ubiquitous it colors everything we see.
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