A Great Loudreading is in the Making. But no one has noticed.

Columbia GSAPP Entangled Studio Summer 2021
Studio Critic: Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski
Location: The MET

Finalist, Open-Source Biennale, Non-Architecture Competition, 08/2024

Traditionally, museums have been idealized as neutral spaces of preservation and education—places where the public passively consumes a tidy, complete narrative of human history. But this notion ignores the violent, hierarchical structures that shape historical narratives. Every object in a museum is embedded in a power dynamic; none are truly “free.” Institutions like The Metropolitan Museum of Art reflect a colonial and imperial impulse: the desire to categorize, contain, and aestheticize the world in a single building, stripped from context and sanitized for display.

This studio challenges the authority and neutrality of the museum through the creation of Narrative Architectures—animated works, manifestos, formulas, pamphlets, and websites—that confront the museum’s complicity in historical erasure. By focusing on “loudreading” events within the MET, we explore how architecture can act as a tool for rebellious emancipation across multiple scales. The work interrogates institutional narratives and reimagines spatial frameworks that resist passivity, reclaim stories, and demand critical engagement.