Talk:V. Mitch McEwen

Sources for V. Mitch McEwen

Hello, draft-maker––hopefully these will help!

Basics

• Position: Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton School of Architecture
• Architecture firm: "How Atelier Office Is Upending the Architectural Paradigm: Amina Blacksher and V. Mitch McEwen’s new venture..."
• Education: Columbia ‘06 M.Arch
• SUPERFRONT nonprofit/gallery: "New Brooklyn Gallery Catalyzes Avant-Garde Architecture", "Superfront"
• Grants: Graham Foundation (2014, 2016), Knight Foundation (2015)

Black Box Research Group

• "McEwen's Black Box Research Group Leads Collaborative Efforts in PPE Prototyping and Production for the COVID-19 Front Lines"
• "The Power of the Printer: How informal networks of architects mass-produced simple yet lifesaving devices ... a new course for humanitarian design"
• "Operation PPE creates 3D-printed equipment for the COVID-19 front lines"

MoMA / opposing white supremacist Philip Johnson gallery

• "Artists Ask MoMA to Remove Philip Johnson’s Name, Citing Racist Views" (The New York Times)
• "MoMa urged to drop Philip Johnson's name over architect's fascist past" (The Guardian)
• "After Architects Denounce Philip Johnson’s White Supremacist Views, Harvard Will Rename a House He Designed" (Hyperallergic)

House Opera | Opera House

• Art House: How one architect is attempting to reimagine Detroit’s blight" (Hour Detroit, 2016)
• "When a house is an opera: Creating spaces for art in Detroit" (Knight Foundation, 2015)
• "House Opera: Reimagining Detroit’s Vacant Homes as Vibrant Public Spaces" (Architizer, 2016)

Book chapters + articles

• McEwen, "Negro | Bauhaus: design and politics of experimental life" in Bauhaus futures (MIT Press, 2019)
• McEwen, "Watercraft: Detroit water infrastructure and its protocols of sprawl and displacement " in Perspecta 50: Urban divides (MIT Press, 2017)
• "Profound Modernity" (e-flux, 2017)

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• New Museum's IdeasCity: "Mitch McEwen is the next curator of IdeasCity"
• Design As Protest: "Design as Protest: How can designers stand for, fight for, and build an anti-racist future?"
• Recent lectures: "Reconstruct Everything", "COVID-19 and White Supremacy are Dual Pandemics", "The Black New Deal"
• Bina Gogineni and Kyle Nichols, "Anthropocene/Anthroposcene: Integrating Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Human-Planetary Interaction toward Ethical Adaptation" (Critical Inquiry, 2021) // "Three metropolitan architects, Rem Koolhaas, David Adjaye, and V. Mitch McEwen, look to global Southern urbanisms––improvisational, creative, minimalist praxes grounded in indigenous lifeways––for alternate modes of inhabiting anthropocenic modernity."

// Knifegames (talk) 15:49, 23 February 2021 (UTC)