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Emanuel Admassu

Emanuel Admassu (‘12 MSAAD, ‘13 AAR) is an Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. 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. He is also a co-founding 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.

Work

Bole Rwanda by AD—WO.

Containment and Immeasurability by AD—WO, “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art New York

Free Bricks by AD—WO.

Immeasurability by AD—WO, “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art New York

Immeasurability by AD—WO, “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art New York

Immeasurability (detail) by AD—WO, “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art New York

Ketchene by AD—WO.

Two Markets by AD—WO.

Merkato Tapestry by AD—WO.

The Back Room by AD—WO.

Two Markets Installation by AD—WO.

Courses

Course	Semester	Title	Student Work	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
A6820‑1	Fall 2023	Urban Design Studio II		Emanuel Admassu, Jelisa Blumberg, Nina Cooke John, A.L. Hu, Oscar Oliver-Didier, Christin Hu		Urban Design Studio UD Required	206 FAYERWEATHER M + TH 1:30 - 6:30 , F 9AM -11AM	FULL SEMESTER 9 Points	10084

Recent News

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"Multihypenation" exhibit at Harvard GSD's Druker Design Gallery features work by Professor Hilary Sample (MOS); Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ’12 MSAAD ’13 AAR and Jen Wood ’12 MSAAD ( AD—WO); and Faculty Jing Liu (SO – IL)

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Groundwork, designed by AD—WO (led by Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD, '13 AAR and Jen Wood '12 MSAAD) opens at Art Omi

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Conversation between Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu '12 MSAAD, '13 AAR and Zoé Samudzi on "Soyinka’s Aesthetics and Monumentality" published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture

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Columbia News interviews Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD

Emanuel Admassu speaks with Columbia News about the relationship between his practice and teaching, how his work and research engages issues of spatial justice and legacies of colonialism, and his current design projects including an apartment building under construction in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD, Faculty Chat Travieso, and Karen Kubey ‘09 MArch contribute to Places Journal's Field Notes on Design Activism series

Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD ‘13 AAR receives Graham Foundation grant for "Where is Africa" publication, co-edited together with Anita N. Bateman

Faculty Emanuel Admassu '12 MSAAD, '13 AAR and Architecture PhD Student Malcolm Rio participate in Black In Design Conference hosted by Harvard GSD

Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu '12 MSAAD, '13 AAR and Jen Wood publish 'Architecture Without Measure: Notes on Legibility' in e-flux architecture

Faculty Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD ‘13 AAR and Amanda Williams, and Alumni J. Yolande Daniels ‘90 MArch and Mitch McEwen ‘06 MArch interviewed by Michael Kimmelman for the New York Times

"Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America" on view the Museum of Modern Art features work and contributions by GSAPP alumni and faculty

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