The co-curators of a MoMA exhibition that confronts how America's built environment plays a key role in anti-black racism share five of their standout projects from the show.
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America features work from black architects, designers and artists in mediums including film, sculpture and photography at multiple scales.
The cover of a book accompanying the exhibition
The exhibition was organised by Sean Anderson, associate curator of MoMA's department of architecture and design, Mabel O Wilson, the Nancy and George E Rupp professor of architecture, planning and preservation at Columbia University, and MoMA curatorial assistant Arièle Dionne-Krosnick. Addressing architectural spaces such as residential neighbourhoods, schools and the prison system, the practitioners acknowledge how racial injustice has shaped America's design.

Rather than propose conventional solutions to anti-black racism, each project examines the historical and present-day racism prevalent in 10 American cities and speculates about what the future might look like for black individuals in reimagined contexts.
Here, Anderson and Wilson have selected five of their highlights from Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America for Dezeen:

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