Articles Tagged with ''diversity in architecture''

Paul Revere Williams Becomes First African American to Receive AIA Gold Medal

Anna Fixsen

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

December 7, 2016

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The AIA’s 2017 Firm Award goes to San Francisco-based firm Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects.

San Francisco’s Equity by Design Symposium Uses Data to Engender Change

Lydia Lee

November 3, 2016

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Is there a “pink ghetto” within architecture?

AIA Releases Results of Diversity Survey

Women and people of color report more career obstacles and lower job satisfaction levels.

Rebecca Seidel

March 9, 2016

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It’s not news that the architectural profession is demographically skewed. Despite moderate progress over the last decade, women and people of color continue to be underrepresented. However, a report released by the AIA yesterday puts these disparities into numbers.

Women Push for Equality in the Architecture Profession

The around-the-clock culture of the workplace is under attack as woman strive for equity.

Cathleen McGuigan

November 15, 2015

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Last month, architectural record held its second annual Women in Architecture Forum and Awards in New York, with a packed crowd of architects (mostly women but some enthusiastic men) joining in the celebration.

Breakthroughs and Obstacles: Prescriptions for Change

Ted Landsmark

May 19, 2009

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Max Bond, FAIA, the dean of African-American architects, passed away in February.

Breakthroughs and Obstacles: Architecture's Evolving Complexion

G. Chaise Nunnally

May 19, 2009

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Architecture still suffers from a paucity of African-American practitioners.

Diversity in Design: The Diversity Pipeline

James Murdock

May 16, 2009

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Across the country, design-centered high schools are helping increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos in the field.

Diversity in Design: Marrying Content to Container

The National Museum of African American History and Culture finalists present competing expressions of the black experience through architecture

David Sokol

May 16, 2009

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A culminating chapter in a century-long push to create a black-history museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., began April 14, when National Museum of African American History and Culture (AAHC) director Lonnie Bunch announced that the team Freelon Adjaye Bond and SmithGroup had been selected to design the museum’s new building at the base of the Washington Monument.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

The session will expand on Practice Ecosystem and will uncover design and planning strategies developed over years of experience in the multi-family housing typology.