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Washington Post - Exclusive Tour inside the newest Smithsonian

May 10, 2016 Juanita Wichienkuer

 

Take an exclusive tour inside the Smithsonian's African American museum

In exhibit Tags NMAAHC, National Museum of African American History and Culture, exhibit
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NY Times - How Do You Tell the Story of Black America in One Museum?

March 26, 2016 Juanita Wichienkuer
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/arts/design/how-do-you-tell-the-story-of-black-america-in-one-museum?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/arts/design/how-do-you-tell-the-story-of-black-america-in-one-museum?

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Wallpaper Magazine Design Awards 2016: Best Cultural Draw – National Museum of African-American History and Culture →

January 14, 2016 Juanita Wichienkuer
“The museum ‘stands with and against the other institutions on the Mall’, he says, echoing Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, ‘with exactly this purpose: to say that this, too, is American history; this, too, is America.’”

Design Awards 2016: Best Cultural Draw | Wallpaper ...

In exhibit Tags NMAAHC, Wallpaper, Design Awards, National Museum of African American History and Culture
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NY Times Arts Beat - A Black History Museum Introduces Itself on the National Mall

November 17, 2015 Juanita Wichienkuer
A video display, titled "Commemorate & Celebrate Freedom," was projected on the facade of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington

A video display, titled "Commemorate & Celebrate Freedom," was projected on the facade of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington

A new Smithsonian museum dedicated to telling the history of African-Americans lit up the National Mall on Monday night as historical images related to the Civil War, the abolition of slavery and the passage of the Voting Rights Act were projected onto the facade of the five-story building. Called the National Museum of African American History and Culture, it is slated to open next fall.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/a-black-history-museum-introduces-itself-on-the-national-mall/

In exhibit Tags NMAAHC, Juanita Wichienkuer, NY Times
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Atlantic Council - Qatar's New Slavery Museum

November 2, 2015 Juanita Wichienkuer
It was a huge surprise last week to learn of a new museum dedicated to a deeply sensitive topic: slavery in the Gulf. More surprising still, the museum is excellent. The slavery museum, one of four heritage museums built as part of Doha’s massive Msheirib Downtown project, had been kept under wraps and is not yet open to the public. The VIP ribbon cutting ceremony led by Sheikha Mouza bint Nasser, chairperson of Qatar Foundation, allowed prominent Qataris the opportunity to view the completed exhibits firsthand, before opinions formed elsewhere.
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Rendering for Memories of Msheireb Gallery

PROJECT     Heritage Houses Museums

LOCATION    Doha, Qatar

ROLE     Exhibit Designer with Ralph Appelbaum Associates, renderings and production drawings

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http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/qatar-s-new-slavery-museum

In exhibit Tags Doha, Juanita Wichienkuer
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60 Minutes - A Monumental Project

May 17, 2015 Juanita Wichienkuer
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“Four hundred years have past since America’s original sin and still riots are ignited in the friction between race and justice. As this debate continues the Smithsonian is completing a monumental project, the $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture... Building the museum has been a long struggle, just like the story it hopes to tell. Beside the monument to Washington, a slave-holding president, the museum is breaking free of the ground on the mall’s last five acres. Eight decades after Congress framed a museum on paper and then failed to fund it, the dream is being written, this time, in steel and stone. Ten floors. Five above ground, five below. Its complexion, rendered in shades of bronze, a building of color against history’s white marble.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/african-american-history-culture-smithsonian-institute-60-minutes/

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Smithsonian Magazine - Installing an Artifact in a Museum that Hasn't Even Been Built Yet →

November 15, 2013 Juanita Wichienkuer
Image credit: Ralph Appelbaum Associates

Image credit: Ralph Appelbaum Associates

As depicted in this rendering of the museum interior, visitors will be able to pass through segregated Rail Car No. 1200. The museum will open in 2016 on the National Mall.
 

Read more about it at:   http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/installing-an-artifact-in-a-museum-that-hasnt-even-been-built-yet

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NY Times - Haunting Relic of History, Slave Cabin Gets a Museum Home in Washington

May 18, 2013 Juanita Wichienkuer
The cabin is being dismantled and will be rebuilt at the Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum.  Credit: Stephen Morton for The New York Times

The cabin is being dismantled and will be rebuilt at the Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum.  Credit: Stephen Morton for The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/us/slave-cabin-to-get-museum-home-in-washington.html

In exhibit Tags NMAAHC
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Domus - The Cabinet of Curiosities →

September 5, 2012 Juanita Wichienkuer

http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/the-cabinet-of-curiosities/

In exhibit Tags Venice Biennale, Juanita Wichienkuer, exhibit, Casa Scaffali
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MoMA Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront

November 16, 2011 Juanita Wichienkuer

MoMA Book available for purchase at:    http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Currents-Projects-Yorks-Waterfront 

In exhibit Tags Book, MoMA, Rising Currents
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Places Journal - Two Feet & Rising →

April 8, 2010 Juanita Wichienkuer
Image credit: Matthew Baird Architects

Image credit: Matthew Baird Architects

Two Feet High and Rising: On Optimism, Speculation and Oysters

A review of MoMA’s architecture and urban design show Rising Currents, which explores how New York Harbor might be adapted to rising sea levels.

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MoMA Rising Currents

Winner of the AIA New York State Design Award of Excellence 2010

 

PROJECT     Commissioned proposal for the MoMA Architects-in-Residence Program

LOCATION     New York City

ROLE     Design team member, lead fabricator for Matthew Baird Architects

 

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Purchase the MoMa book Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront 

Read the Metropolis Magazine article: Hope Floats

Read the NY Times article: Imagining a More Watery New York

 

Image Credits: © 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photo: Thomas Griesel, © Juanita Wichienkuer, © Matthew Baird Architects

 

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Metropolis - Hope Floats →

March 24, 2010 Juanita Wichienkuer

http://www.metropolismag.com/March-2010/Hope-Floats/

In exhibit Tags MoMA, Juanita Wichienkuer, Rising Currents
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Metropolis - Swing Space →

January 24, 2006 Juanita Wichienkuer
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LMCC Swing Space

CLIENT     Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

PROJECT     3,000 sq ft Installation

LOCATION     the Equitable Building, New York, New York

ROLE     Principal Design Builder

 

Published in Metropolis Magazine, January 2006

http://www.metropolismag.com/January-2006/Swing-Space/

In exhibit, installation Tags Swing Space, LMCC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Juanita Wichienkuer
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