Spring 2019 seminar: B.Arch. candidate, architecture
Hallie Black is a fifth-year B.Arch. thesis student minoring in the Department of German Studies. With a specialization in visual representation in architecture, her work critically engages various geopolitical contexts through drawing and negotiates the spatial implications of xenophobic violence. Digitally collaged drawings of her research on the Mexico-U.S. border are currently on view at Yale School of Architecture’s exhibition Two Sides of the Border and were selected as a finalist for the KRob delineation competition. Her internship with Common Accounts, specializing in postdigital media and representation, capstones her cartographical models of the bureaucratic procedures of military corpse retrieval as a funded Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar. Under thesis professors Esra Akcan and Val Warke, her undergraduate thesis titled "Burning Up in Flames” analyzes the jingoistic arson attacks of post-1989 Germany and deconstructs the phenomenological and theoretical possibilities of architecture’s symbolic hijacking and innocuous misdirection beyond postmodernism’s topos.