Adjaye | Freelon

A few weeks ago I went to an event at North Carolina A & T State University - a speech by two architects, David Adjaye and Phil Freelon, about their work both separately and in collaboration on a National Museum of African American History and Culture for the Smithsonian on the National Mall in Washington DC. Read more about the collaboration here in Dezeen, LATimes, NYTimes, ArchRecord, etc.

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Above: Phil Freelon and David Adjaye on the stage on January 6, 2010 taking questions at the end of their joint lecture at UNC A&T; last in the Triad Design Leadershop.

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Among the other projects of the Freelon Group's that Phil presented were other African American Museums in Baltimore, San Francisco, and two here in North Carolina: the Harvey B. Gannt Center for African American Arts & Culture which had just opened a month or two before and The International Civil Rights Center & Museum which just opened this week in Greensboro, NC's old Woolworth's where the lunch-counter sit-in protest occurred in the 1950s. Read more in the NYTimes.

Gannt Center, Charlotte:

Civil Rights Museum, Greensboro:

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Phil Freelon (Freelon Group)
David Adjaye (Adjaye Associates)