“Can the Master’s Tools Dismantle the Master’s House?”: A Conversation with Architect Mabel O. Wilson

'This is the second conversation of the series complementing the latest issue of The Funambulist Magazine dedicated to Design & Racism.  Professor Mabel O. Wilson teaches architectural design and history/theory courses at Columbia University’s GSAPP. She has authored Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (University of California Press 2012) and Begin with the Past: The Building of National African American Museum of History and Culture published by Smithsonian books in 2016. Professor Wilson is currently the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow (2015-2016) at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in Visual Art where she is developing the manuscript for Building Race and Nation: How Slavery Influenced the Civic Architecture of Antebellum America.' -- ARCHIPELAGO