Ouch! Reed Kroloff

Black Like Whom?
I believe that the piece - "black like me" - is highly symptomatic of the exclusion of questions of race from architectural discourse. More than two decades ago, discussions on race deeply affected and transformed many disciplines--history, visual art, film, and sociology to name a few--but these debates and vocabularies never quite penetrated the collective architectural psyche. The result is a clumsy, outdated, and embarrassing inability to engage in a discussion of race when it is most crucial. In this sense, architects are just as unprepared as FEMA when it comes to dealing with Katrina.

- Daniela Fabricius, New York, NY