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Race and the Built Environment Guide

Architecture: Practice and Education Articles

Cramer, Ned, Whitney M., Jr. Young, Mimi Zeiger, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Katharine Keane, Eric Wills, and Elizabeth Greenspan. “Architecture, Equity & Activism: 1968 to Now.” Architect (Washington, D.C.) 107, no. 5 (May 1, 2018): 106–55.  Available online via Architect.

Fisher, Alisha. “Alisha Fisher : Design Innovation Relies on Diversity. Black Women Are Often Overlooked in Architecture -- Our Network Hopes to Change That.” Blueprint (London, England), no. 363 (April 1, 2019): 18.  Available in print in the RWU Architecture Library.

Hosey, Lance. “Hidden Lines: Gender, Race, and the Body in ‘Graphic Standards.’” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1, 2001, 101–12.  Available online via JSTOR.

Lokko, Lesley Naa Norle. “Arguments from Silence.” Journal of Architecture 7, no. 4 (January 1, 2002): 369–74.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.

Lokko, Lesley. “Black Matters [South Africa].” Architectural Review 221, no. 1324 (June 1, 2007): 80–83.  Available online via EBSCO.

Sutton, Sharon E., and William Richards. “What Does Race Have to Do with Architectural Education?: Sharon Sutton on Why Columbia University’s Story Should Matter to Students -- and Architects -- Today.” Architect (Washington, D.C.) 107, no. 5 (May 1, 2018): 95–96.  Available online via Architect.

Waite, Richard, Ike Obanye, and Benjamin Charles Derbyshire. “Race Diversity Survey : Is Architecture in Denial? Twenty-Five Years on from Stephen Lawrence’s Death, the AJ, in Partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, Investigates Attitudes to Race within the Profession.” Architects’ Journal 245, no. 9 (May 1, 2018): 6–10.  Available in print in the RWU Architecture Library.

Walker, Clive. “A Black and White Issue.” Architects’ Journal 222, no. 2 (July 1, 2005): 16–17.  Available online via EBSCO.

Williams, Amanda, and William Richards. “The Chicagoan: Creating Connections for a Divided City.” Architect (Washington, D.C.), no. 9 (September 1, 2015): 79.  Available online via Architect.