Where This Flower Blooms
Lecture from Germane Barnes
Thursday, November 21, 6pm
Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
Chicago-born architect Germane Barnes is the founder of Studio Barnes, and Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Architecture Graduate Program at the University of Miami School of Architecture. His practice investigates the connections between architecture and identity—using historical research, design, and activism to uncover the spatial histories and futures of Black self-determination.
Barnes’ work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art’s 2021 exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He is a winner of the Architectural League Prize and is a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He was also selected for the inaugural cohort of The Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab. His work has been published in and acquired for the permanent collections of international institutions such as San Francisco MoMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Most recently, Barnes was featured in the 2023 Venice Biennale, “The Laboratory of the Future,” and opened his first solo museum exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024.
Barnes received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Architecture from Woodbury University.