Hidden In Plain Site - Episode Three - "Master Builder" - Damon Dickerson (Khai LW XI Amaru)
Since graduating from the University of Michigan and completing two travel studio programs, Damon Dickerson has worked professionally as an architectural designer throughout Michigan. As a native of Ypsilanti, Damon and his family moved to Detroit with the intention to aid in the City’s revitalization. With a belief that equitable development starts with community, he has always leveraged his passion and architectural skillset to seek solutions to issues stemming from built environment inequities. With a hand for design, Damon leads coordination and documentation efforts in various areas of small to large-scale projects. Damon has worked on a myriad project types; including residential, sports and entertainment, family recreation centers, tenant and landlord build outs. He enjoys designing, developing, and coordinating the client’s vision through all project phases. He demonstrates an understanding of municipal code, and consistently works with requisite disciplines in interpreting their project-based goals and aspirations.
5 projects Damon loves:
- Castelvecchio Museum – Scarpa
- Chaffers’ Ann Arbor Cottage – Chaffers
- Sugar Hill Mixed-Use – Adjaye
- Sunken House – Adjaye
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History – Sims|Varner
Architects he’d love to know more about:
- Jack Travis
- Diebedo Francis Kéré
- Shigeru Ban
- Rem Koolhaas
Detroit City of Design Spotlight
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History – Sims-Varner Associates
- And Still We Rise exhibition
- Howard Sims, FAIA
- Harold Varner, FAIA
- Hubert Massey, artist, muralist
- Hip-Hop Architecture
- David Hughes: Afrocentric Architecture
- Jack Travis
- The Afrocentric Idea by Molefi Kete Asante
- National Organization of Minority Architects Conference
Show Topic Links:
University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Planning
Washtenaw Community College
National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMAS)
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Jonathan Siegel: “Architect as Developer” (EntreArchitect: Context & Clarity)
Damon and Ashley Dickerson: Pioneers in Rebuilding Detroit (POLITICO)
Current projects:
7400 West McNichols project
Baobab Fare by Dokes Design Architecture
NDP/Live6/UDM conversation: Black Developers and Architects
Sawyer Art Apartments (N’Namdi, Holdingsosey Development)
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
David Adjaye
Design Collective: Mark English, Carole Harris, Emmett Hagood, Percy Cash
Sharon E. Sutton
Dr. Craig Wilkins
Dr. Wilkins: The Transformative Possibilities of The Available City (Chicago Biennale)
Dr. James Chaffers
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