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Sydney Rose Maubert is an artist, architect, and professor. She uses painting as a tool for architectural storytelling. She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, with double minors in writing and art. Currently, Sydney Rose is the inaugural fellow at Cornell's Strauch Fellowship.
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Sydney Rose Maubert is an artist, architect and professor. She uses painting as a tool for architectural storytelling. Her research interests are architecture, geography, and cultural production in the Caribbean and American South. The work is largely shaped by black studies, gender studies, decolonial studies, history and cultural geography. Informed by her Haitian- Cuban heritage, her practice explores racial- sexual perception in the built environment. 

​She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, with double minors in writing and art. She has received several awards including the Cornell Council for the Arts Award, Yale Moulton Andros Award, University of Miami Alpha Rho Chi Award. She is the founder of Sydney R. Maubert LLC., her art and mural practice. Currently, Sydney Rose is the inaugural fellow at Cornell's Strauch Fellowship, where she will be teaching and producing research (Fall 2022- ongoing). She sits on the board for the Center for Architecture's Scholarship Committee. She has assisted teaching courses at Yale University, Morgan State University, City College of New York and the University of Miami. She is the June 2023 Artist in Residence at the Everglades (AIRIE). 


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Sydney Rose Maubert: Queen of the Swamp — The Saltwater Railroad
July 29- December 1st
​Ernest Coe Visitor's Center, Everglades, FL
Exhibition Details
This project, "Queen of the Swamp", is an acknowledgment of Miami's Bahamian history and its vital ties to a larger cultural geography of Southern and Indigenous aesthetics. It draws upon Miami's history of Bahamian laborers' construction of Miami's infrastructure on porous rock, and their present descendants' influence on Miami Bass culture. In many ways, Miami's Black and Indigenous communities are the instigators of Miami's original architecture, infrastructure, and present culture. This work is interested in identifying a Miami architectural vernacular and uses its aesthetics as a possible solution to our swampland’s troubled reputation as being uninhabitable. It experiments with aesthetics of impropriety as a solution.
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Sydney Rose Maubert: Hymns From a Burning House — Haitian Dispossession
February 20–March 9, 2023
Cornell John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome
Exhibition Details
I wish I could testify that I came to know my heritage because of my easy feeling of belonging. But it was a foreign intimacy that let me know how much heritage mattered. As I went out into the world, I was troubled by the dispossessive force of disruptive stories, when my innocent questions were confronted with tales of poisons, zombies, and capture; of unreliable actors and insurgency; of riches, pearls, and unfounded debts. I was troubled and fascinated by these stories, which blurred the boundaries of history and humor, and found myself struggling to untether myself from what might be a great folktale or might be a vital lineage. I longed for the fleeting feeling of freedom I knew as a child, when my father would tell me stories of my heritage, of Haitian heroes and of the Haitian Revolution. It broke my heart as I grew older, to hear my father say over and over, "Did you see Haiti is on fire again?" I'd witness distorted images of a church on fire, women looking dazed in the street, and these terribly beautiful photos of bedrooms, couples tethered to each other in embrace. I hesitate to represent these images, though I feel the need to call attention to the ease with which we make a spectacle of Haitian suffering — and to illuminate how Haitian women's brilliant experiments with homemaking, intimacy, and the performance of daily life are often overlooked.
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​Sydney Rose Maubert: Intimacies of the Walls
September 19–October 8, 2022
Cornell East Sibley Exhibition Hallway, East Sibley Hall
Exhibition Details
​This exhibition seeks to examine the conditions that precipitated the disappearance of Miami's shotgun house. Tracing the historiography of the shotgun house from its origins in pre-colonial West Africa to its most recent mutation in 1939 Miami’s Liberty Square housing, a 243 one- to two-story unit project, I chart the ways that the shotgun horizontally expanded urban environments, mediated processes of racial perception and tension in the United States, prompted by the end of Reconstruction, mass migrations, and immigrations.

This event is showcasing the works of Sydney Rose Maubert, related to her seminar course Intimacies of the Walls. It seeks to examine the way that race altered the cityscape, and the ways that racial conceptions informed its informal architecture and economies. It views Miami through a black femme lens.

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SPEAKING

Remembering Home_Critical Fabulation and Imaginations of___

Harvard GSD
Black in Design Conference 2023
September 22- 24, 2023
​Announcement here.
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ARTIST TALK

sTILL HERE: GENERATIONS OF BLACK MIAMI ARTMAKING

Coral Gables, FL
University of Miami

September 27- 30, 2023
​Announcement here. ​
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publication

Log 57: black is... black ain't
ed.: Darell Wayne Fields
Anyone Corporation
​2023
Publication order here. 
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SPEAKING

Spring 2022 BSA+GSAPP One-Day Symposium

Columbia GSAPP
Home Symposium 2022
April 9, 2022
​Announcement here.
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artist residency

AIRIE Artist in Residency in the Everglades June 2023 Fellow
Everglades, Florida
June 2023
Announcement here. Bio here.
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eth zurich seven questions curatorial

Columbia GSAPP
Symposium 2022
April 9, 2022
​Announcement here.
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teaching fellowship

Cornell Strauch Fellow 2022- 2024
Ithaca, NY
Fall 2022- Spring 2024
Announcement here. 
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selected work 2016- 2022

Intimacies of the Walls: Homeplace and refusals

Cornell AAP
Photography: Anson Wigner
​Funding: Cornell College of Architecture
2022

Cartographies of Braiding

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Abeer Seikaly
2022

Haitian- Cuban Dwapo

Advanced Studio
​Faculty: Tatiana Bilbao
2021

Forgotten Black Mecca

Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Justin G. Moore
2021

WUYÁMUSH MEMORIAL AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY LAB

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Andrew Benner
2020

Data Collection, Blackness and the Almighty Dollar

Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Mark Foster Gage
2020

Parting of the Seas: Parametric Acoustic Panel

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz
2020

Equitable Design: Acoustic Helmet for Children with Autism

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz
2020

Asilo Nido, Biblioteca and La Casa di Riposo

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Sonia Chao
2019

​​GOOMBAY ​PLAZA  

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: David Trautman
2018

​PICKNEY ​HOUSE 

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: David Trautman
2018

The Set Housing Development: Competition
Entry

Competition,
Lead: Germane Barnes
2018

Brickell Stage

Installation,
Design Team: Cristina Canton, Jaime Correa, Adib Cure, Steve Fett, Carie Penabad, Elie Mehreb, Bernardo Rievling and Qiazi Chen. 
​Production Team: Tiffany Banks, Andrew Dai, Emily Elkin, Max Erickson, Marisa Gudiel, Elsa Hiraldo, AJ Guillen, Andrea Hernandez-Torres, David Holmes, Laura Martinez, Israel Martinez, Sydney Maubert, Christel Orbe, Mario Ostalaza, Cynthia Pacheco, Dorianne Paris, Cristian Ruiz-Lucio, Jack Shao, Stephanie Tarud, Yuanxun Xia​
2018

High Rise Typology Exhibition

Exhibition,
​Faculty: Eric Firley, Germane Barnes, Chris Chung, University of Miami School of Architecture.
​2017

Transformations in
classical architecture

Publication,
​Editor: Victor Deupi, University of Miami School of Architecture.
​Editorial Research Assistant: Sydney Maubert
​2016- 2018

Wolfson Residential Towers

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Roberto Behar
2017

ROME PROGRAM: DRAWINGS

Rome Program,
Faculty: Sonia Chao
2019

Karnikara Leaf Study

Architecture Drawing,
Faculty: Carie Penabad
2016

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Figure drawing

Drawing,
Faculty: Gerardo Olhovich
2018

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