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Repost from @nomanational • #BlackArchitect Allison Williams is renowned for her ability to seamlessly integrate design and technical proficiency into all of her projects; in a career spanning more than 30 years in corporate practice, Allison Williams has designed significant large-scale projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally and internationally. The breadth of Ms. Williams' work spans civic, corporate, and cultural facilities, places for research and education, mixed-use, and high-density developments. Currently, Ms. William operates her own firm AGWms studio; Allison served as AECOM's global architecture practice as Vice President and Director of Design for the firm's U.S. West region. Ms. Williams oversaw the vision and passion for design into AECOM's architecture practices. Before joining AECOM, Ms. Williams was a Principal for Perkins Will and an Associate Partner for SOM with high-profile projects that include the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Research Facility; the international terminal at San Francisco International Airport; CREATE at the National University of Singapore, AOL Creative Center in Dulles, VA; The August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, PA; Freddie Mac Corporate Headquarters Mc Lean, VA; The Ellington Mixed-Use Tower in Oakland, CA and America Center Research and Development Campus. Allison has been a fantastic mentor to many of the younger black architects in the Bay Area and is always there to support opportunities and programs that introduce and nurture the next generation of minority architects. Ms. Williams received both her Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Art in the Practice of Art at the University of California, Berkeley and she is a Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellow and was elevated to a Fellow in the AIA in 1997 for her excellence in design and was the 2020 Joseph Esherick Visiting Professor at U.C. Berkeley. http://bit.ly/2Sw8TDU #Blackarchitects #Architecture #Blackhistory #BlackDesignMatters #Architect #BlackExcellence #WomenArchitect #DiveristyinDesign #NOMA - #architecture #building #architexture #city #buildings #skyscraper #urban #design (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLhoI6SBPrN/?igshid=1iv3dioetm0ku

~ @nomanational Beverly Loraine Green of Chicago was born October 4, 1915. Ms. Greene is the first licensed woman #BlackArchitect in the US; she was registered in Illinois on December 28, 1942, at 27. Beverly was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Illinois with an undergraduate degree in Architectural Engineering in 1936 and a Master of Science degree in City Planning and Housing in 1937. Ms. Greene secured her first professional position in 1938, working for the Chicago Housing Authority. In 1945 Beverly left Chicago to take a job on the Stuyvesant Town project being developed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in lower Manhattan, and she was the first architect hired on the project. After several days on the job, Beverley sought more education and left her position to pursue her Master's degree in Urban Planning at Columbia University on a scholarship. Ultimately she obtained her Master's degree in Architecture in the same year. After Columbia, Ms. Greene worked for Dr. Isadore Rosenfield, specializing in designing healthcare and hospital projects. Starting around 1952, Beverley collaborated with Edward Durell Stone to design the theater at The University of Arkansas and the arts complex at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1955 Ms. Greene teamed up with Breuer to work on the United Nations headquarters in Paris, France, and several buildings on the New York University campus. Beverly, designing the Christian Reformation Church and Unity Funeral Home in New York City. The last project served as the site for her memorial service at the age of 41 years young. http://bit.ly/14Doqkn #WomenArchitect #Blackhistory #Architecture #BlackDesignMatters #Architect #BlackExcellence #DiveristyinDesign #BlackLegacy #architecturehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1YsCPhIG3/?igshid=lisu370wryw7

~ @nomanational #BlackArchitect Ethel Bailey Furman was the first practicing female Black architect in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mrs. Furman was the daughter of Richmond building contractor Madison J. Bailey, with whom she frequently collaborated on many of her first projects. Ethel studied in New York with a private tutor and Chicago at the Chicago Technical College. Ethel surmounted the discrimination she faced as a Black woman, often by submitting her building plans to local administrators through the male contractors. Ethel designed numerous public and private buildings in Richmond and the surrounding area, including Fair Oak Baptist Church, St. James Holiness Church, Cedar Street Memorial Baptist Church and, Mount Nebo Baptist Church in New Kent County. Ethel designed an estimated two hundred residences and churches in central Virginia and two churches built in Liberia. Her 1962 design for Richmond's Fourth Baptist Church's educational wing was recognized on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Church Hill North Historic District extension in 2000. Mrs. Furman was active in the Richmond community; she received the Walter Manning Citizenship Award and was named to the Richmond Afro-American’s Community Honor Roll in 1954 and 1959. In 1985, a small city park was dedicated to her memory at 28th and M street near her home and office. In 2010 Furman was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History" for her civic work and accomplishments in the field of architecture. http://bit.ly/3b2mdXU #WomenArchitect #Architecture #Blackhistory #BlackDesignMatters #Architect #BlackExcellence #DiveristyinDesign #WomeninArchitecture #architecturehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzw8s3BlEk/?igshid=13yr88k4bmdy7

Here's a perspective on asking what you can do. Reposted from @malene.barnett I’ve been reading a lot of posts from white designers who want to do better. They are questioning why they don’t see many Black designers in magazines, awarded, recognized, on major projects, etc. Asking what I can do? They are feeling confused about racism and don’t understand the protesting. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ While you’re trying to understand racism, a systematic problem, and contemplating whether you are complicit or not, make a list of the following; list the number of opportunities you’ve passed on to Black designers, list events attended and the number of Black designers you’ve interacted with, list the number of Black designers in decision making positions, list the number of award galas celebrating Blackness in design, list the number of programs featuring Black creatives as experts, list the number of Black design students you’ve mentored, list the number of design collaborations with Black designers, list the number of Black designers hired for multi million dollar projects. These are only a FEW areas to explore. If your paper is blank or fewer than a page, it just shows how much work YOU need to do because my list can take up an entire notebook. #takeaction 📷 @alaricphoto . Action step ➡️ Invest in @badguild DONATION link in bio T-shirt available at www.badguild.info . . #buildwithBADG #blackdesignmatters #blackartmatters #bethechange #getuncomfortable #blacklivesmatter #wearebadg - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBC_YVplL-/?igshid=ovfztyjueoe0

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Norma Sklarek was the first of many firsts, she was the first licensed African American female architect in both NY ('54) and CA ('66) as well as being the first to be inducted into the AIA Fellows ('80). In 1986, she became the first African American woman architect to form her own firm: Siegel, Sklarek, Diamond. #Sklarek #women #blackarchitects #architecture #blackdesignmatters #history #architect #design #aia #ncarb (at Langford Architecture Building)