Emanuel Admassu: The Ridge
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AD—WO, Immeasurability: The Ridge (detail), 2020. image / provided
Emanuel Admassu is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. He is a founding partner, with Jen Wood, of AD—WO, an art and architecture practice based in New York City, and by extension, between Melbourne and Addis Ababa; and a cofounding board member of the Black Reconstruction Collective.
His art, design, and teaching practices operate at the intersection of design theory, spatial justice, and contemporary African art. The work meditates on the international constellation of Afrodiasporic spaces. Most recently, he has been analyzing the socio-spatial identities of two urban marketplaces: Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam and Merkato in Addis Ababa. Admassu has previously taught at RISD Architecture and Harvard GSD.
AD—WO's work was featured in the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at the Museum of Modern Art. Their installation focuses on the immeasurability of Black spatial practices in Atlanta and the Atlantic.
