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 ...

By the initiative's conclusion in 2025, it will have played a transformative role in reshaping how the history of modernism includes the contributions of African American architects, aiming to ...

Michael Ford, also known as the “Hip Hop Architect,” is leading the design of the Bronzeville Center for the Arts, set to ...

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 ...

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 ...