The architect & founder of Beyond the Built Environment discusses the challenges of dismantling racial injustice from within a system that has perpetuated it.
"We need an understanding of how architecture is very much complicit in injustice," says Mabel Wilson, one of the Memorial's designers. See new images from the demonstration in this updated story.
"It is our responsibility to work together to break down the barriers that start in architecture school and continue into the firm and workplace that exclude far too many," writes the Board of Directors in a statement to its members published June 4.
As protests against racial injustice continue around the world, some architecture school leaders are speaking out about the killing of George Floyd and systemic inequalities in the United States.
For two nights in a row, the skyscraper—which is home to Architectural Record's offices—has turned off its lights. We editors join our many colleagues in architecture and design in expressing our sorrow and calling for an end to inequality, injustice and systemic racism.
"Before we can confidently advocate for greater economic opportunities for architects of color, we need to ensure that those very people are first able to breathe," writes NOMA president Kimberly Dowdell.
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