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Invitation for Design Diaspora Charrette

1993

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

An invitation to The Design Diaspora Charrette, "A 7-hour Design Program to Conceptualize an International Center for the African Diaspora" at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois presented by The Chicago Athenaeum: The Museum of Architecture and Design, the Design Diaspora, and Art in Public Places, Inc. The program is open to the general public and specifically invites students, architects, landscape architects, artists, teachers, and business professionals. The invitation also includes information and and RSVP number for the opening receptions for the exhibition "Design Diaspora: Black Architects and International Architecture 1970-1990." Invitation is black with white text or black with white text with depiction of architectural rendering on front. Exhibition title appears at top right, beneath which is [An Exhibition of Built Projects Designed Between 1970-1990 by Fifty African American, Black European, and African Architects].

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Catalog reference: 2023.25.5.3

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