Description
Editor
Dr. Nashid Madyun
Guest Editor
Juliette Harris
Senior Contributing Editor
Cinqué Hicks
Assistant Editor
Marlisa Sanders
Executive Publisher
William R. Harvey, Ed.D.
Artist and Hampton alum John Biggers was fascinated by the shotgun house and used it as a repetitive pattern in his paintings. But he really showed his architectural design eye and hand in the precision of the detailed, scale drawings that he made in planning two murals for Hampton University and his technique in executing 20–foot high mural paintings from these drawings. The mural design was inspired by Biggers’s interest in architectural history and theory and the patterns of his mother’s quilts. The murals were based on a matrix of circles, squares, hexagons, equilateral triangles and spheres that Biggers applied to hand–drawn grids. Into these grids, he interwove figures that include depictions of campus buildings. The murals were commissioned for the University’s Harvey library atrium, planned in collaboration with the building’s architects, the Livas Group (all Hampton Graduates), and installed in the new building in 1991.
Architect/computer modeling specialist Derek Ham, a 2001 Hampton University architecture graduate, examined John Biggers’s work from a computational perspective as part of his doctoral study in computational design at MIT. Ham analyzed Biggers’ murals and pulled out the mathematical principles to demonstrate how many of the artist’s patterns and layouts can be expressed algorithmically.
Our interest in exploring connections between visual art and architecture for The International Review of African American Art was seeded by such examples of Hampton University’s history.
—Excerpt from “From the Guest Editor” by Juliette Harris
Feature Articles and Contributors:
Practice Profiles
“David Adjaye/Conceptual Visionary”, Sharon F. Patton, Ph.D.
“Phil Freelon/ Drawing and the Language of Architecture”,
J. Michael Welton with Commentary by David P. Brown
“Huff+Gooden: The Works in Architecture of Ray Huff and Mario Gooden”,
Al Willis
“Laurence Chibwe/Designing Across Cultures”, John S. Welch, Ph.D.
“June Grant ‘I Have a Need to Make It’”, Juliette Harris
Multidisciplinary
“A Talk with Mabel O. Wilson”, Elizabeth A. Watson, Ph.D.
Public Projects
“Creatively Challenged to Lead from the Edge: Black Women in Public Interest Architecture”, Bradford Grant
“Unwrapping the Mystery of a Lost Community and Preserving and Extending Its Legacy”, Carmina Sánchez–del–Valle
“Not Grandpa’s Porch, Or Is It?: Musings on the New Museum on the Mall”, Michelle Wilkinson
“The Wisdom of Broader Ribbons Across the Land: A Design Vision for the Rebuilding and Greening of Detroit”, Craig L. Wilkins, Ph.D.
Bibliographic Details
Title: The International Review of African American Art
Publisher: The Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Pictorial Softcover
Book Condition: Excellent
Book Type: Quarterly Magazine
Shipping Terms:
All books are padded and wrapped carefully. Most are shipped in a box, unless very small, in which case they will be shipped in a padded envelope.
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