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Follow @28blackarchitectsin28days to learn about Today’s #BlackArchitect, William Hart, Founder and President of Hart Development and Founder and Former Principal of Carleton Hart Architecture, PC, in Portland, Oregon!
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Follow @28blackarchitectsin28days to learn about today's #BlackArchitect, Lynn-Margaret Pace, who is a Founding Partner and Principal at Ponder & Ponder Architects in Norcross, GA!
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Our first #BlackArchitect of the #28BlackArchitectsin28Days Series is Julian Francis Abele! He received what is now known as the B.Arch [Bachelor of Architecture] from The University of Pennsylvania in 1902, making him the First African American graduate of the Graduate School of Fine Arts!
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It's Black History Month! #28BlackArchitectsIn28Days is back! Stay tuned and follow @28blackarchitectsin28days to learn about one Black Architect Daily!
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Did you know that Tom Ford, Ice Cube, Courtney Cox & TC Carson all studied or completed degrees in architecture?
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Read more: https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/rtf-fresh-perspectives/a2138-13-famous-celebrities-in-various-feilds-who-have-an-architectural-degree/
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Read about TC Carson here: https://news.amomama.com/203194-tc-carson-who-played-kyle-barker-living.html
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Enroll your 6th-12 grade student in Virtual Architecture Courses starting tomorrow, January 11th! Visit the link in our bio!
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Today, we turn 6! It's been a journey of ups, downs, lessons and major achievements! Thank you all for riding with us!
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Like and follow @28blackarchitectsin28days to learn about Today’s #BlackArchitect is April C. Drake, AIA, LEED AP ID+C!
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April is a 2004 graduate of Hampton University, where she received the B.Arch (Bachelor of Architecture) Degree. She is a native of the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. April Drake is a Senior Project Architect with HDR in Arlington, VA, whose work focuses on government facilities.
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Follow @28blackarchitectsin28days to learn about our first #BlackArchitect of the day, Isaac Menyoli, AIA, NCARB, LEED! He is a Founder and President of M&E Architects + Engineers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Visit @28blackarchitectsin28days to learn about our first #BlackArchitect of the day, Diane Davis-Sikora, who is an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University! She has held this position since 1997.
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Diane received the B. Arch (Bachelor of Architecture Degree) from Cornell University in 1988 and the M. Arch (Master or Architecture Degree) from Harvard University in 1995. She is the owner of LabD2S, a firm she opened in 1999 with projects spanning from conceptual designs, design-thinking, and the Akron Civic Theatre Visioning Study and Theater Addition in Akron, Ohio. (pictured). She is a licensed architect whose research focuses on temporary, kinetic structures that employ variable patterns and surfaces.
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Take a moment to visit her website here: https://www.dianedavissikora.com
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There are 2,378 Black Architects in our country.
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Some of you have worked in offices with that many or more people.
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Some of have lived in dorms or apartment complexes with that many people or more.
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Some of you been to conferences with that many or more participants.
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Needless to say, there are only enough Black Architects in America to occupy a small to medium small office building.
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That's why the work that we do through @draftingdreams and @28blackarchitectsin28days, the work that @thehiphoparchitect does through @hiphoparchitecture, @tarchitectsceo does through @tcaad2020, @skibison does through @kulimadesign and the work of many others is SO IMPORTANT!
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Today, we start off with a letter from WEB Dubois to yesterday's #BlackArchitect Albert Cassell, dated for December 9, 1930, imploring Cassell to share his experiences to young, up-and-coming Black Architects, which reads as follows:
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“My Dear Mr. Cassell:
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I would like very much to have you write for the Crisis a short article on “Architecture as a Career for Young Colored People.” I want you to tell something about your own education and career and difficulties of choice and finding work, and then to say a word about the opening for other Negroes. Perhaps you could add something of the success of any Negro architecture you may know of. I should like also to have a photograph. We cannot use a cut or a print, but must have an original photograph.
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I trust you can do this for the Crisis and for the guidance of colored youth.
Very sincerely yours,
WEBD”
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Here we are 91 years later, with still only about 2% of architects being Black, and the need for this kind of outreach STILL being necessary from those of us who are Black and successful in this profession. This is why @28BlackArchitectsIn28days and we, it's Parent Organization, @draftingdreams exists!
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Meet our first #BlackArchitect of the month, Albert Cassell, responsible for the design of many of Howard University's buildings!!
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#28BlackArchitectsIn28days is back!! Be on the lookout for information of 28 Black Architects throughout Black History Month!
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In the age of virtual learning, these kits serve as excellent educational and engaging activities!
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Visit http://draftingdreams.org/kits to purchase yours today, just in time for Christmas! (Link in Instagram Bio)
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Today, alongside Brother Prescott Reavis @skibison, our founder @thearchitectscale will be presenting for the 48th NOMA National Conference (National Organization of Minority Architects) about our work in youth inclusion in community design and youth activism through design!
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Meanwhile, over at @youthplacesyp, we finished the first part of our greenhouse!! We are building this greenhouse as learning lesson about solutions for food insecurity in our community as well as to eventually grow produce on the Northside!
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We thank YouthPlaces for being our LONGEST and consistent client-partner!
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Drafting Dreams Summer is over and the 1st Leg of the Obstacle Course at the @mount_ararat_community_center is complete!
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