CAMERON A. AVERY

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“A prophetic aesthetic calls us to talk about what it means to raise generations of architects with a multicultural sensibility who will think about architecture not just as a profession but who will think about spaces that everyday people inhabit and about our accountability toward making those spaces wonderful and inhabitable space.” — bell hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics —

This project uses bell hooks’ essay “An Aesthetic of Blackness—Strange and Oppositional” as a precedent for a journey of Black phenomenology and aesthetic exploration through space. As hooks argues, aesthetics is not organic but an intentional consideration of beauty's function in our spaces. “Black House and Universe” enters a site a family has stewarded for generations, specifically to explore self-expression, cultural preservation, and beauty.

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CAMERON A. AVERY