Series: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship

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...

Conscious Community is a compelling book by three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture. It includes the projects of Chris T. Cornelius, who focuses on "Decolonizing Indigenous Housing"; Abeer Seikaly, who delves into "Conscious Skins" concerning materiality, making, and place; and Rodney Leon, who presents a concept for a National Slavery Memorial in Washington, D.C. The book...