The work of Admassu and Wood (architecture, design, installation, research) focuses on the peculiarity of spatial reflection in the African diaspora, defining the studio as the operational terrain for the meeting of container and content, of architecture and socio-political dynamics. Architecture has been subject to disenfranchisement and violence that have resulted in an “inheritance of segregated neighbourhoods, compromised infrastructures, environmental toxins, and unequal access to financial and educational institutions”. Working on this premise, the studio identifies hybridizations and specificities in Ethiopian post-colonial markets, or the heritage of blackness in a western world that is often non-cohesive.
