Design justice is grounded in personal experience and built through everyday actions. Wandile Mthiyane is an architectural designer that embodies this idea, an activist that grew up in Durban ...
Cephas says DC has the country’s largest concentration of buildings designed by Black architects, in part due to the post-Emancipation era, when the city’s African American population boomed ...
To recognize John Chase and his achievements, the UT Austin School of Architecture library is now named after him. The John S. Chase Architecture and Planning Library was made possible thanks to a ...
and the Organization of African Unity (1963). Within this context, Modernist architecture emerged as a powerful symbol of national identity, ambition, and the collective aspiration for a brighter ...
A nationally recognized architect, Cook co-designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Even before its 2016 opening, the museum drew ...
Madison founded Robert P. Madison Architect, the first African American-owned architecture firm in Ohio in 1954, teaching high school students to become draftsmen and hiring African Americans when, ...
According to the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, less than 0.5 percent of licensed architects in the U.S. are African American women. In an overwhelmingly white industry, Michae ...