G D Barnes
@UncleRemusChkn
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I design things. Black spaces are my speciality....West Side Chi-Town Made
Joined February 2017
@MichelleHux Was one of 10 Black designers featured in MoMA's first ever all black architecture exhibition this past Spring. And the first black male recipient of the Rome Prize for architecture 🤓.
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@MuseumModernArt commissioned 10 of us to do some work interrogating Architecture and Blackness. Here’s a sample. The show is open to the public!
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Hey! That's me!!!! 😁😁.
Congrats to @UncleRemusChkn on being awarded the 2021-22 Rome Prize in Architecture by the @AmAcademyRome! .#architect #scholar #blackcolumns
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I was named one of the 25 creatives of the future by Theaster Gates and Wallpaper mag. Not bad for kid from the west side. Germane Barnes discusses cities, architecture and identity via @wallpapermag.
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Throw one up for ya boy 🙏🙏!.
We are pleased to announce the four shortlisted architects for the 2021 #WheelwrightPrize: Germane Barnes, Luis Berríos-Negrón, @IuliaStatica, and @cattydan. Learn more about the finalists and their proposals:
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One more 🙈.
Congratulations to the six winners of #LeaguePrize21!. Visit to learn more about this year's winners and register for the upcoming online lectures. Graphics courtesy of @pentagram
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A huge nod to this actual review of the show!. Architecture | Jay Cephas on “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” @artforum.
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Look at this fuckin’ rockstar!!! Very humbled to have met this amazing woman and visionary mind ♥️♥️
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We made a short film exploring architecture x black identity for the @ArchLeague. You Can Always Come Home is live for viewing!! .
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I did some stuff about blackness x architecture x texts.
"My research practice attempts to interrogate a multitude of issues in disenfranchised black communities and raise awareness of the legacies those communities possess. These texts provide entry to those legacies." @UncleRemusChkn .
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One of my 12 collages on display @MuseumModernArt.
How it started Vs How it’s going 😩 we’re in The Museum of Modern Art
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New day, new award for the kid!!! Can’t stop won’t Rockafella Records. We get down baby, we get down.
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@ArmandoSalguero @wyche89 @MiamiHerald When none of those "rights" apply to individuals that were black or indigenous, it's called Racism smart guy.
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In other news, the film I executive produced as one of the winners of the @ArchLeague 2021, was accepted to the New Orleans film festival!!!!! It’s been a hell of a run.
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Yoooo, we won some bread to do some black stuff with architecture.
Thank you to the @GrahamFound for supporting our work #manifesting @MuseumModernArt #reconstructions.
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“Griot” our contribution to the 2023 Venice Biennale located in Arsenale. #laboratoryofthefuture
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I only know two ways to answer emails… in .0046 seconds or never.
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When your homie is official, official you celebrate him! Congrats JGM!!.
President Biden Announces His Intent to Appoint Members to the Commission on Fine Arts
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Can someone explain this to me like I’m five?.
In a historic break with decades of policy, the Federal Reserve announced Thursday that it will no longer deliberately keep millions of Americans unemployed at all times. @EricLevitz writes
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Here’s my course video commissioned by @MuseumModernArt for the Reconstructions Exhibition. Check it out!
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The shows opens SATURDAY!!.
In the MoMA's Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, writes reviewer Jess Myers, Blackness is used as an analytical lens through which to deconstruct—and possibly reconstruct—the built environment:.
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If you're in the Chi, come out west to our Block Party! Food, drinks, and the release of @MASContext issue 33: Vigilantism with @dissentxdesign. What to see at the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2021 via @wallpapermag.
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If you haven't been to @museummodernart, stop by and see the work! #reconstructions #momareconstructions
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WE WON BEST PUBLIC ART FOR 2024 IN MIAMI!!!! LFGOOOOOOOOO 🥳🥳🥳🥳. Best Public Art - Ukhamba
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Hang with me tomorrow!!!.
How is the kitchen a place of community & conflict, joy & survival? Join architect Germane Barnes and food scholars Michael Twitty & Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson for an exploration of the kitchen as a social space on April 30 at 6:30pm ET. Register:
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When I see “peer reviewed” my first thought is always, “Damn, they found a black person from a non-ivy who grew up in a disenfranchised community that grew up on R&B and Hip-Hop?!?” Then I remember it’s academia and we’re 🦄🦄.
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We live baby!!.
A fusion of Lexus design and digital art inspired by visionary Germane Barnes (@UncleRemusChkn) and his team at @mia_umiami. Tune in tomorrow as we unveil our immersive installation at Design Miami. #LexusElectrified #LexusLFZ #DesignMiami
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@OJeyifous sent me this screen grab from the Biennale announcement today!! Cats out the bag, we in there!!!. #BiennaleArchitettura2023 .#TheLaboratoryOfTheFuture
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It's me again!.
Germane Barnes (@UncleRemusChkn) explains the need for social resilience in the face of climate change. Photo © Iwan Baan.
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Germane Barnes, Robert Andy Coombs, and Keisha Rae Witherspoon among the prizewinners of the United State Artists -USA- Fellowship.
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To say all of this is humbling is an understatement. BRC as tech startup?
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Pull up on me!.
The #LeaguePrize2021 lecture series kicks off on Tuesday, June 15 with Liz Gálvez of Office e.g. and @UncleRemusChkn of Studio Barnes. Register now for all three nights of lectures!.
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The book is here!!!!!!!!.
Join us this Saturday at Chicago's Principle Barbershop to launch Vigilantism. Featuring guest editors @UncleRemusChkn & @dissentxdesign, graphic designer Bobby Joe Smith III, and contributors Could Be Architecture, Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner.
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2020 was museums ✅.2021 was installations ✅.2022 is public art ✅.2023 we got 3 buildings signed up 😤.
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One of the best art books? Duhhhhhh.
✊🏿💫✊🏿. The “Reconstructions” catalog has been selected as one of the Best Art Books of 2021 by the @nytimes Art Critics. Congrats to our amazing curators, my fellow exhibitors + all contributors!. @The_BRC_ @UncleRemusChkn @awstudioart @NegroBuilding .
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Check it out! I donated to 'A Proposal for Black Architecture: Unearthing the Black Aesthetic ' - via @GoFundMeCharity.
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Thanks for hanging with us Zach!! It was an awesome weekend.
.@UncleRemusChkn has the keys to the 2021 @chicagobiennial & all the joy, creativity, & resilience of the West Side of Chicago, *the* relevant venue for architectural imagination, despite where & what most most architects are building. I’m in @ArchRecord
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Today is my birthday, so it's only right I introduce you to a new project!. Currently reading from Design Miami/ Shop: 'Introducing: What’s Good G?'
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Hey @nhannahjones we at @The_BRC_ would love if you reviewed the first ever all-black architecture exhibition in MoMA’s history for the @nytimes instead of their normal architecture department rep. This is historic and on the heels of the #1619Project it’s only right!
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Catch me in Spain!! 💃🏻💃🏻.
After our Vigilantism issue and the @chicagobiennial collaboration, we are happy to be the organization supporting @UncleRemusChkn’s installation during this year's @concentricofest in Logroño, Spain. The event will take place September 1–6.
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You’re probably tired of me, but we got another one!!.
Barnes described the winning design as an "ode to the joyful spirit that persists in Miami’s Black communities—a spirit of self-care that is so perfectly embodied in Miami Carnival culture.".
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As someone that experienced a drive-by at the age of 3, you are never the same. Those kids will forever be changed because of shithead politicians.
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MORE WINS!!!!!!!!.
We are excited that the @typographicarts has recognized our Vigilantism issue and our Radical Logic book as part of their STA 100. Congratulations to @3Bobbyjoesmith, Anna Mort, and Rick Valicenti for their fantastic design work.
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@GaloAndStuff Bwahahahaha, that's a joke right? Decolonizing education isn't even a decade old agenda in architecture. So to require that and a 10-yr professional history is dumb. To require a PhD for an adjunct position is dumb.
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Check it out.
A Spectrum of Blackness "is more anthropological in nature than specifically architectural. But that’s what makes my practice unique, since I use architecture as the vehicle to tell these important stories.". @UncleRemusChkn on his work for Reconstructions.
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Yerrrrrrr.
Tonight we name the winner of the inaugural New Perspectives Award, which celebrates individuals and/or collectives who take unique, critical positions that contribute to a broader understanding of architecture. Congrats to the Black Reconstruction Collective! @The_BRC_👏 🏆 🎉
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Score one for the squad.
Tonight we're also honored to name 3 recipients of AIANY's Special Citation, an intentionally elastic award given to individuals, orgs, or initiatives for leading work that addresses the unique challenges of the day. Congrats to NYC Open Streets, @BEExNY, and @darkmatter_u! 🎉 🏆
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I did an interview yesterday with @TheSource and it was all my childhood passions colliding together 🔥🔥🔥🔥.
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More wins! All the wins!!!.
We are excited that the @typographicarts has recognized our Vigilantism issue and our Radical Logic book as part of their STA 100. Congratulations to @3Bobbyjoesmith, Anna Mort, and Rick Valicenti for their fantastic design work.
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We made a short film this, tune in, you don’t wanna miss it!!!!.
TOMORROW 6/15 6 p.m. EDT: Join us for the first evening of #LeaguePrize2021 lectures with Liz Gálvez of Office e.g. and Germane David Barnes @UncleRemusChkn of Studio Barnes. Learn more and register now:
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Pull up!!!!.
Congratulations to @UncleRemusChkn, whose exhibition “Unsettled” is now open at @_ninajohnson in Miami. The exhibition runs until November 19, 2022.
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Join us.
Join us November 12 for a lecture by architects Germane Barnes (@UncleRemusChkn) and Shawhin Roudbari (@dissentxdesign), guest editors of our upcoming issue Vigilantism. More info / RSVP:
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If you're in New Orleans this Monday hop over to Tulane where I'll be lecturing.
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I convinced my mom to put money in crypto a few months ago and now that dodgecoin is going ham, she won't return my calls
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@MASContext gave @dissentxdesign and me the full reigns burn it all down!! We’re talking race + space + liberation through the lens of Vigilantism. And damn did we find a killer lineup of contributors.
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I just want to take a moment to thank @demonicground for agreeing to contribute to our @MASContext Vigilantism issue. Dropping formalities for a brief moment, SHE’S A REAL ONE!!!! @dissentxdesign this is going to be a killer interview!!
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Been hated CPD. This video is just more confirmation they’re scumbags.
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POW POW.
We’re (@The_BRC_ ) so thrilled to share that Tonika Lewis Johnson (@tonikaj) and Ife Salema Vanable are our inaugural BRC Prize Awardees! . The BRC Prize was created with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (@mellonfdn). 🙌🏿 💎 🙌🏿💎🙌🏿
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First time talking about my basketball and architecture overlapping history!.
NEW! Ep. 190: Germane Barnes @UncleRemusChkn Practices Architecture w/ the Prowess of a Winning Point Guard ✨He's an award-winning architect, designer + educator focused on architecture & identity, examining how the built env. influences Black domesticity. w/ @amydevers
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If you’re in NYC, go see this historic show!!.
How does race structure America’s cities? The @MuseumModernArt’s new exhibition explores the relationship between architecture and the spaces of Black and African diaspora communities, #Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. #architecture #design #urbanism #art
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Check out the thread!!!.
Germane Barnes: "The ability to be mediocre. One shouldn't be required to be exceptional to be worthy of defense. To be worthy of living free. We'll know that Black Freedom has arrived when every Black life is celebrated, not only the ones that 'made it.'" #ImagineBlackFreedom.
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Come hang with us!!!!.
This Thursday, @UncleRemusChkn’s installation “Intersect” opens in Logroño as part of the 8th edition of @concentricofest. We are happy to support Germane’s work in Spain. Concentrico runs from September 1 until September 6.
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AND she hoop?!?!? Black. Girl. Magic.
🏆🏆🏆 6th & 7th grade #Highlights. Wait 'till you see her now , ⚡️💨🤯#waayyybetter. Been working like usual. [For more extensive highlights check out her Instagram page: @basketballasart]. 🖖🏀
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Every day social media confirms that you dudes are weird. I had no idea so many men hated women but damn are my eyes open. Now with message boards and podcasts you weirdos have a “safe space” to hate. It’s all bad.
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Yerrrrrrrrrrrrrr!.
Tonight we honor @NegroBuilding as the 23rd recipient of the Scully Award. Mabel O. Wilson is honored for her excellence in practice & scholarship in the built environment. Congrats Mabel!
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Two more days to pop out!!!.
You have until Tuesday, September 6, to enjoy INTERSECT, the playscape by @UncleRemusChkn for @concentricofest. It is located at the intersection between Gran Vía and Daniel Trevijano St. We are very happy to support this playscape as part of #concentrico08. 📸 @josemacutillas
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@seanjjoyner Preeeeeeach! I got zero time for regurgitated jargon or someone that's never seen a chain net on a basketball hoop trying to tell me about urbanity.
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A must read about race and the built environment. This is what they really think of you 🤬🤬.
This morning I must tell you of a whole ass eye opening experience I had, a thread!. I’m on the phone last night talking to someone I’ve presumably never spoken to before. A woman 10 years my senior. The conversation turns to the history of the.
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If you’re in Miami next week for #Miamiartweek stop by @DesignMiami to see my installation for @Lexus ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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@LylaCatellier @AnjulieRao Y’all so dope. Just remember this, we don’t care. We didn’t make the work for him, or people like him. The people we made it for, they get it. All of it. And they love it. Of course he won’t understand AD-WOs work, he’s never heard of Gucci 😂😂
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Inside Man is so underrated when choosing Spike Lee joints.
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What's it called when your career is on 🔥🔥 but everything else is ☠️☠️?.
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Harvard Radcliffe Institute Announces Winners of Public Art Competition | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Let’s fuckin’ go @jeandashpaul !!!!!!.
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We. Don’t. Eat. Deep. Dish. Pizza. Tavern only! 😤😤😤.
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