User:Bnasa829/sandbox

Mabel O. Wilson (born 1963) is an architect, designer, and scholar. Her research explores visual culture in contemporary art, film, and new media; the social production of space; politics and cultural memory in black America; and theories of time, cinema, and databases. Wilson is currently a professor at Columbia University within the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation teaching architectural design, history and theory courses. She is a founding member of [http://whobuilds.org/ Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?)]—a project that examines "the links between labor, architecture and the global networks that form around building buildings."

http://heymancenter.org/people/mabel-wilson/ https://www.arch.virginia.edu/alumni/impact/alumna-mabel-o-wilson-receives-american-academy-of-arts-letters-architecture-award

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

Career
Wilson teaches architectural design, history and theory courses within the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She is a founding member of [http://whobuilds.org/ Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?)]—a project that examines "the links between labor, architecture and the global networks that form around building buildings."

Awards and Honors

 * 2019: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture
 * 2011: Ford Fellow in architecture and design

Early life and education Lupton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1963[1] and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.[2] Her parents divorced in 1973 when she and her twin sister, Julia, were ten years old.[3] As a self-professed "art girl" from a family of English teachers, her love of typography combined her love of art and writing.[1][4]

Lupton attended Cooper Union College in 1981 as a fine art student, where she discovered graphic design and the "expressive potential of typography."[1][5] Lupton described this discovery of graphic design as "a revelation... Design really wasn't in the mainstream back then. It was esoteric. It was the thing you did if you were very 'neat,' which I wasn't.”[1]

Career After graduating, Lupton was offered a position as curator of the newly-founded Cooper Union Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography.[1] This combined her long-standing interests in writing and design in her first curatorial position.[1] With an interest in the do-it-yourself movement, Lupton took advantage of limited resources to visually construct the history of graphic design, surprising peers in her ability to meld the visual and verbal.[1] These exhibits provided an arena in which "objects, images, and text functioned as both the method of communication and the subject of inquiry."[1] At this time, Lupton began to write critically about typography and design, utilizing a post-structuralist framework to understand how design is embedded in political, economic, and social contexts, saying, "Typography and architecture are not neutral containers for the content or programs they are thought to neatly accommodate. These are fundamental insights of modern and post-modern thinking."[4] She has cited Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault as informing her (albeit more populist) work.[4]

In 1992, Lupton joined Cooper Hewitt as curator of contemporary design. At this time, Lupton also began writing books about the design world.

In 1997, Lupton became a chair of the undergraduate graphic design program at MICA. She served in this role until 2002.[6][non-primary source needed] In 2003, she launched a new MFA program in graphic design at MICA and has served as the director of that program ever since.[6][non-primary source needed]

navigates her practice, Studio 6Ten, between the fields of architecture, art and cultural history. Her design and art work have be exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and SF Cameraworks. She is currently completing a cultural history entitled: Progress and Prospects: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, forthcoming from University of California Press. She teaches architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP.

With Peter Tolkin, she is a collaborator on SideProjects. Their photo essay about artist John Outterbridge, “Catfish and Coltrane,” was published in the collection The Architecture of the Everyday.

Mabel O. Wilson studied Architecture at the University of Virginia, earning her Bachelor of Science in 1985. Wilson completed her Master’s of Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP and has a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2011, United States Artists recognized Wilson as a Ford Fellow in architecture and design.