Germane Barnes: Let Me Fix Your Crown

Germane Barnes is a Miami-based, Chicago-born architect and designer whose award-winning research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity, examining how the built environment shapes Black domesticity through historical research and design speculation. He received a BS in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Architecture from Woodbury University, where he won the Thesis Prize. He is an associate professor and director of the graduate architecture program at the University of Miami School of Architecture. A 2021 Rome Prize fellow, he researched "Structuring Blackness in Rome" at the American Academy in Rome and joined the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. His work has been featured by MoMA and SFMOMA. In "Let Me Fix Your Crown" at Nina Johnson he explores royalty in everyday life through ceramics, drawings and collage.