Mabel O. Wilson

Mabel O. Wilson (born 1963) is an architect, designer, and scholar. She is also the founder of Studio & and professor at Columbia University in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Mabel O. Wilson
Mabel O. Wilson at the book launch for When Ivory Towers were Black at Columbia GSAPP
Born1963 (age 57–58)
Alma materUniversity of Virginia, Columbia University, and New York University
OccupationArchitect

Education

Wilson received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the University of Virginia in 1985, a Master's of Architecture at Columbia University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University in 2007.

Career

Wilson is the co founder of Studio &, an architecture firm exploring different facets of art, architecture, and cultural history.[1] Her research and writing explore race in contemporary art, film, and new media; the social production of space; and politics and cultural memory in Black America.

Wilson is a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University where she teaches courses in architectural design, history, and theory since 2007.[2] Also at Columbia, she is the Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS)[3] and, alongside Mario Gooden, is the co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL). Wilson is a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?)—a project that examines "the links between labor, architecture and the global networks that form around building buildings."[4]

Books
  • Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Co-Editor with Irene Cheng and Charles L. Davis II), forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. (ISBN 978-0-822-94605-2)
  • Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, 2016. (ISBN 978-1-588-34569-1)
  • Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, University of California Press, 2012. (ISBN 978-0-520-26842-5)

Awards and Honors
  • 2019: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture[5]
  • 2019: Educator/Mentor honor from Architectural Record's Women in Architecture Design Leadership Program[6]
  • 2015–16: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts (CASVA)[7]
  • 2011: United States Artists Ford Fellow in Architecture and Design[8]

References
  1. "Mabel O. Wilson". Columbia GSAPP.
  2. "Mabel O. Wilson". Columbia University GSAPP. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  3. "Mabel Wilson | IRAAS Institute for Research in African-American Studies". iraas.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  4. "About". Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?). Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  5. "Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  6. Mavros, Kara (6 September 2019). "Architectural Record's 2019 Women in Architecture Award Winners Announced". Architectural Record. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  7. "National Gallery of Art's World-Renowned Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) Announces 2015–2016 Academic Year Appointments". National Gallery of Art. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  8. "USA Fellows". United States Artists. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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