Omar Gandhi

Scott Ruff's studio, Gullah/Geechee Institute, investigated architecture's role as a cultural signifier in the African-American GullahGeechee community off the South Carolina coast. It challenged students to translate cultural ideas into tectonic and spatial strategies for a monument, museum, and memorial that serves as a gateway to the GullahGeechee corridor, incorporating public interpretive and historical programs. In Florencia Pita and Jackilin...