12 Black Architects Making History Today

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从知名的获奖者到崭露头角的人才，这些建筑师既是创新的设计师，也是让行业更公平的推动者。

黑人历史月是一个反思过去的时刻，考虑到迄今为止剥夺美国黑人权利的种族主义和长久以来不平等的历史。这也是承认社会各领域几代黑人群体所做出的贡献和庆祝成就的时刻。而历史不应仅限于一个月，我们该认识到时刻聆听和放大黑人声音的紧迫性。

对黑人建筑师和设计师的重视性不足继续着损害建筑业。今天，黑人占美国人口的 14%；然而，在国获得许可的大约 113,000 名建筑师中，只有不到 2% 是黑人。除了增加行业内的多样性外，行业还必须面对设计更合理的空间和城市的需求，并将有色人种联合社区纳入这些设计过程。正如 Kweku Addo-Atuah 美好地陈述的那样：“这需要集体大众来想象和塑造建筑环境，要使其真正反思和响应社会，其包容性必须处于最前沿。”

此前，我们曾试图追认 10 位影响美国的黑人建筑师的作品。通过认同这些来自过去的人物，这些作品持续影响着当前社会，我们希望这样的共同路线做出贡献，以建立一个更加公平的未来。今年，我们将重点介绍当代黑人建筑师，他们影响深远的工作正在打造当今领域的历史。其中包括了 A+奖 评审团成员、资深从业者和新兴人才，以下建筑师不仅因其杰出的设计而被挑选出来，还因其在促进更加多元化的建筑行业和公平的建筑环境方面发挥的领导作用。

From established award-winners to up-and-coming talents, these architects are both innovative designers and powerful advocates for a more equitable AEC industry.
Black History Month is a time to reflect upon the past and reckon with the long history of racism and inequality that has disenfranchised Black Americans to this day. It is also a time to acknowledge the contributions and celebrate the achievements of generations of Black communities across all areas of society. A history that should not be limited to a single month, we recognize the urgency of listening to and amplifying Black voices all year round.
The under-representation of Black architects and designers continues to mar the architectural profession. Today, Black people make up 14% of the United States’ population; yet, less than 2% of the approximately 113,000 architects licensed in our country are Black. In addition to increasing diversity within the profession, the industry must confront the need to design more equitable spaces and cities and incorporate communities of color into these design processes. As Kweku Addo-Atuah beautifully states, “It takes the collective populace to imagine and shape the built environment, and for it to be truly reflective and responsive to society, inclusiveness must be at the forefront of collaboration.” 
Previously, we have sought to posthumously recognize the work of 10 Black Architects Whose Work has Shaped America. By acknowledging these figures from the past whose legacies continue to impact our present, we hoped to contribute to a joint roadmap for building a more equitable future. This year, we highlight contemporary Black architects whose impactful work is forging history in the field today. Including A+Awards jury members, established practitioners and up-and-coming talents, the following architects have not only been singled out for their distinguished designs, but also for their leadership roles in advocating for a more diverse architecture industry and equitable built environment.



Germane Barnes

作为著名的 A+奖评审团最新成员之一，Germane Barnes的研究和设计实践探索了建筑与个性之间的联系。通过深掘建筑的社会和政治机构，他研究了建筑环境如何影响黑人家庭生活。目前，他是迈阿密大学建筑学院社区住房身份实验室 (CHIL) 的助理教授和主任。

他是 2021 年哈佛 GSD Wheelwright 奖得主、罗马奖会员和建筑联盟奖得主。 他的设计和研究成果已在多个国际机构发表和展出。 最值得注意的是，他同时被现代艺术博物馆、Pin-Up 杂志、格雷厄姆基金会、纽约时报、建筑师杂志、DesignMIAMI/巴塞尔艺术展、瑞士学院、大都会杂志、Curbed 和国家非裔美国人历史博物馆认定为是将会在未来崛起的设计师。

One of the newest members of prestigious A+Awards Jury, Germane Barnes’ research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity. Mining architecture’s social and political agency, he examines how the built environment influences black domesticity. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL) at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture.
He is the 2021 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize winner, Rome Prize Fellow and winner of the Architectural League Prize. His design and research contributions have been published and exhibited in several international institutions. Most notably, The Museum of Modern Art, Pin-Up Magazine, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, Architect Magazine, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, The Swiss Institute, Metropolis Magazine, Curbed, and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise.


Left: 888 Boylston Street, Boston, MA; Right: Pascale Sablan via Forbes 

Pascale Sablan

Pascale Sablan连续两个赛季重返 A+奖评审团，她是著名公司 Adjaye Associates 的合伙人。Sablan还是 Beyond the Built Environment (BBE) 的创始人兼执行董事，该组织致力于通过建筑参与社群，倡导公平、反映性多样化的环境。BBE组织被评为2021年建筑联盟“新兴之声”奖得主。Sablan的工作赢得了多个奖项，包括因其倡导的影响而被评为2021年AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. 奖获得者，并成为获得该荣誉的最年轻的非裔美国人。

在2020年，Sablan被选为国家少数民族建筑师组织（NOMA）的会长当选人，而她以前曾被评为2015年的成员。AIA年轻建筑师奖得主2018年。实际上Sablan是有色人种建筑师的领军声音，策划了在AIANY 建筑中心首次发起的一系列SAY IT LOUD 展览，旨在提升女性和 BIPOC设计师的贡献。SAY IT LOUD展览已在多个场所展出，包括联合国游客中心、A'18、NOMA Unbounded 和 SXSW。

Returning to the A+Awards jury for a second consecutive season, Pascale Sablan is an associate at renowned firm Adjaye Associates. Sablan is also the Founder & Executive Director of Beyond the Built Environment (BBE), an organization focused on engaging community through architecture to advocate equitable, reflectively diverse environments. The BBE organization was named Architectural League 2021 Emerging Voices award winner. Sablan has won multiple awards for her work, including being named 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award recipient for her advocacy efforts and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows the youngest African American to receive that honor.
In 2020, Pascale was voted President-Elect, National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) where she previously was named member of the year in 2015. AIA Young Architects award Winner 2018. Indeed, Sablan is a leading voice for architects of color, curating a series of SAY IT LOUD exhibitions originated at the AIANY Center for Architecture focused on elevating the contributions of women and BIPOC designers. SAY IT LOUD has been exhibited at multiple venues including the United Nations Visitors Centre, A’18, NOMA Unbounded and SXSW.


左：杰森·普格（来自建筑师杂志）；右：社区总体规划与经济适用房（来自Beyond the Built Environment）
Left: Jason Pugh via Architect Magazine; Right:Community Master Plans & Affordable Housing via Beyond the Built Environment

杰森·普格

另一位 A+奖评审团成员杰森·普格是芝加哥本土建筑师和 Gensler 认证城市设计师。他的双重能力使他能够采取微观-宏观的设计方法，并反映在他的作品集中。从经济型住房到大型总体规划城市场地，他的方法促进了文化连通性和参与性设计的发展。在国内外项目中，他曾从事公共交通、综合体开发、商业零售等领域的项目。

他对提升服务性不足的社区的主张不仅限于对建筑环境的物理干预，还包括指导下一代设计师。这种对教育、多样性和包容性的热情体现在他在芝加哥 ACE 导师计划联合委员会的职位上。普格于2021年1月1日开始了为期两年的全国少数民族建筑师组织 (NOMA) 主席的任期。

Jason Pugh
Another member of the A+Awards jury, Jason Pugh is a Chicago-based architect and certified urban designer at Gensler. His dual training allows him to take a micro-macro approach to design, reflected in his portfolio. Ranging in scale from affordable housing to large master-planning urban sites, his approach promotes cultural connectivity and participatory design. Across domestic and foreign projects, he has worked on public transit, mix-use development, commercial retail.
His advocacy for elevating underserved communities extends beyond physical interventions in the built environment to mentoring the next generation of designers. This passion for education, diversity, and inclusion is reflected by his position on the Chicago ACE Mentor Program associate board. Pugh began his two-year term as president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) on January 1, 2021.



Wandile Mthiyane

南非建筑师Wandile Mthiyane是奥巴马基金会的领袖、充满活力的演说家、政治分析家、兼职教授和建筑师，拥有密歇根州安德鲁斯大学的建筑硕士学位。 他是一位世界青年大使、决议成员、TEDx 成员，以及 Ubuntu 设计集团、反种族主义热狗和 Ubuntu 建筑暑期海外设计司法学校的首席执行官。

正如Mthiyane富有洞察力的专栏文章“系统性种族主义的建筑师”中所详述的那样，Ubuntu建筑暑期海外项目为来自世界各地的建筑学生创造了一种跨文化的设计建造体验。该计划是一种校际教育体验，学生在其中学习以社会为中心的建筑方法。学生将为受种族隔离建筑影响的南非德班边缘化家庭设计和建造有尊严而文化驱动的家园。

South African architect Wandile Mthiyane is an Obama Leader, dynamic speaker, political analyst, adjunct professor, and architect who holds a master’s in architecture from Andrews University in Michigan. He is a One Young World Ambassador, Resolution Fellow, TEDx Fellow, and the CEO of Ubuntu Design Group, The Anti-Racist Hotdog, and Ubuntu Architecture Summer Abroad Design Justice School.
As detailed in Mthiyane’s insightful op-ed “The Architects of Systemic Racism“, The Ubuntu Architecture Summer Abroad Program has created a cross-cultural design-build experience for architecture students from around the world. This program is an intercollegiate educational experience in which students learn a community-centered approach to architecture. Students will design and build dignified and culturally-influenced homes for marginalized families in Durban, South Africa, who were affected by apartheid architecture.


左：Kimberly Dowdell（来自Metropolis）；右：卡塔尔多哈哈马德国际机场客运航站楼综合体，这是Kimberly Dowdell在Kob的首个项目（来自HOK）
Left: Kimberly Dowdell via Metropolis; Right: Hamad International Airport Passenger Terminal Complex, DOHA, Quatar, First project by Kimberly Dowdell at Kob via HOK

Kimberly Dowdell

Kimberly Dowdell是HOK屡获殊荣的负责人，负责实施战略业务发展和营销计划。 她的整个职业生涯中设计和管理了超过 1 亿美元的资产，并在底特律的住房和振兴部门发挥了重要作用。 Dowdell是一位老师、一位导师，且经常在行业活动中发表演讲和动人的声音。

作为AIA大型公司圆桌会议 (LFRT) 的工作组负责人，她制定了2030年建筑的多样性挑战，意图在未来十年内将获得许可的黑人建筑师的数量从 2% 增加到 4%。Dowdell还在 2019 年至 2020 年期间担任 NOMA 国家主席一职，在她任职期间，其成员数量几乎翻了一番。

Kimberly Dowdell is an award-winning Principal at HOK, where she implements strategic business development and marketing initiatives. She has designed and managed over $100 million in assets throughout her career and played a notable role in Detroit’s Housing and Revitalization Department. Dowdell is a teacher, a mentor, and is a frequent speaker and eloquent voice at industry events.
As task force leader for the AIA’s Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT), she developed the 2030 Diversity Challenge for Architecture, which seeks to double the number of licensed Black architects from 2% to 4% in the next decade. Dowdell also held the position of National President of NOMA from 2019-2020, membership of which nearly doubled during her tenure.


左：纳什维尔城市音乐中心；右：Curtis Moody（来自Moody Nolan）
Left: Music City Centre, Nashville, TN Right: Curtis Moody via Moody Nolan

Curtis Moody

Moody Nolan是美国最大的黑人拥有和经营的设计公司，也是AIA 2021年度建筑公司奖的获得者。同名的联合创始人Curtis Moody近四年来一直是一名执业建筑师和杰出的设计师。该公司于1982年在俄亥俄州哥伦布成立，仅在第一年公司就增长了四倍，此后规模和营业范围继续稳步扩大，多元化其强大的投资组合，并在横跨东海岸的11个不同地区开设了办事处。

从主体育场馆、设施和机构到社区振兴项目，Moody屡获殊荣的设计在全国范围内得到认可和赞美，他的整个职业生涯中参与了价值数十亿美元的建筑工程。

Moody Nolan is the largest Black-owned and operated design firm in the United States and winner of the AIA’s 2021 Architecture Firm of the Year Award. The eponymous co-founder, Curtis Moody, has been a practicing architect and exceptional designer for nearly four decades. Established in Columbus, Ohio in 1982, the firm grew fourfold in its first year alone and has continued to steadily expand in scale and scope ever since, diversifying its formidable portfolio and opening offices in eleven different regions that span from coast to coast.
From major stadiums, facilities, and institutions to neighborhood revitalization projects, Moody’s award-winning designs are recognized and celebrated across the country; he has been involved in several billion dollars worth of construction throughout his career.


左：肖恩·坎蒂（来自哈佛大学研究生院）；右：加州旧金山Heavybit Industries，荣获2014年A+Awards办公-室内类别流行奖，2014年A+Awards概念建筑工作空间决赛入围奖
Left: Sean Canty via Harvard GSD; Right: Heavybit Industries, San Francisco, California, 2014 A+Awards Popular Winner, Office – Interiors, 2014 A+Awards Finalist, Concepts – Architecture + Workspace

肖恩·坎蒂

肖恩·坎蒂是 Studio SC 的创始人，也是哈佛设计研究生院建筑学助理教授。 他还与负责总督岛欢迎中心的实验建筑集体办公室 III (OIII) 合作，而该中心的作品已在纽约现代艺术博物馆展出。

2020 年，肖恩因其项目“前图像、后图像和两者之间”而获得理查德·罗杰斯学术奖金，该项目重视并探索了 18 世纪风景如画的英国传统。他在之前担任 岩本斯科特建筑事务所的设计师期间，他为 Heavybit Industries 的 A+奖获奖设计做出了不少贡献。

Sean Canty
Sean Canty is the founder of Studio SC and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also collaborates with the experimental architecture collective Office III (OIII), responsible for the Welcome Center for Governors Island, whose work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2020, Sean was awarded the Richard Rogers Fellowship for his project, “Before Images, After Pictures, and Somewhere In-between,” which revisits and explores the 18th-century English Picturesque tradition. In his previous role as designer for IwamotoScott Architecture, he contributed to the A+Award winning design of Heavybit Industries.  


左：坦桑尼亚Mizengo Pinda Asali & Nyuki保护区-养蜂与教育中心，荣获2016年A+Awards未建成文化类奖项；2016年A+Awards决赛入围奖；右：Mark I. Gardner（来自Van Alen）
Left: Mizengo Pinda Asali & Nyuki Sanctuary – Beekeeping & Education Center, Dodoma, Tanzania, 2016 A+Awards Jury Winner, Institutional – Unbuilt Institutional; 2016 A+Awards Finalist, Cultural – Unbuilt Cultural; Right: Mark I. Gardner via Van Alen

Mark I. Gardner

Mark Gardner是著名设计实践和工作室 Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects 的负责人，也是 Parsons 的建筑实践和社会学的助理教授。 作为其公司许多举措的领导者，他将设计视为一种社会实践，无论规模如何——从产品到室内设计再到建筑。 这种原则体现在他获得A+奖的在坦桑尼亚的 Mizengo Pinda Asali & Nyuki Sanctuary – 养蜂和教育中心设计中。

Gardner还是 MathMinds 顾问委员会的成员，这是一项课余计划，旨在通过向有色人种高中生介绍工程、计算机科学和科技创业的大学课程来激励他们。

Principal at the eminent design practice and studio Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects, Mark Gardner is also an Assistant Professor of Architectural Practice and Society at Parsons. A leader in many of his firm’s initiatives, he conceives of design as a social practice, regardless of scale—from products to interiors to buildings. This approach is reflected in his A+Award Winning design for the Mizengo Pinda Asali & Nyuki Sanctuary – Beekeeping & Education Center, in Tanzania.
Gardner is also on the Advisory Board of MathMinds, an after-school program created to inspire high school students of color by introducing them to college coursework in engineering, computer science, and tech entrepreneurship. 


左：Tiffany Brown（来自Madame Architect）；右：Tiffany Brown和学生们
Left: Tiffany Brown via Madame Architect; Tiffany Brown with mentees from 400 Forward

Tiffany D. Brown

Tiffany Brown是一位屡获殊荣且广受欢迎的建筑师。她为了建筑多样性和包容性而发声。 她是 400 Forward 的创始人，这是一个非营利组织，旨在向年轻女孩介绍建筑并指导她们在该领域从事工作。 同时她还是非营利性城市艺术集体 (UAC) 的联合创始人，目前是 NOMA National 的执行董事——同时也是一名建筑师。

Brown经常在国家活动上发表演讲，包括 South by Southwest 和 AIA 建筑会议。 她对多元化的大力推崇堪称典范，用 AIA 2020 Associates Awards 评审团的话来说：“她在更好的响应其服务的社区所做的努力定位了该行业的增长方式。”

Tiffany Brown is an award-winning and sought-after voice for diversity and inclusion in the profession of architecture. She is the founder of 400 Forward, a nonprofit aimed at introducing young girls to architecture and guiding them to pursue careers in the field. She is also a co-founder of the nonprofit Urban Arts Collective (UAC) and is currently Executive Director at NOMA National — all while pursuing licensure as an architect.
Brown frequently speaks at national events, including South by Southwest and the AIA Conference on Architecture. Her resounding advocacy for diversity is exemplary, and in the words of the AIA 2020 Associates Awards jury, “her efforts have positioned the profession for growth in a way that better reflects the communities it serves.”


左：加州科学中心，RAW International与ZGF Architects合作完成；右：史蒂文·刘易斯（来自ZGF Architects）
Left:  California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA, Collaboration between RAW International and ZGF Architects Right: Steven Lewis via ZGF Architects

史蒂文·刘易斯

从纽约到洛杉矶，从华盛顿特区到底特律再回到洛杉矶，史蒂文·刘易斯在公立和私营部门都拥有着传奇的职业生涯。 在他自己的公司 RAW International设计了20年之后，刘易斯现在是 ZGF Architects 城市设计实践的负责人。 推崇建筑平等一直是他工作中不可或缺的一部分，并在2016年获得了AIA的承认。

刘易斯此前曾担任底特律中部地区规划与发展部的设计总监，同时在密歇根大学担任实践教授，他的工作室课程专注于社区问题。 同时他还活跃于 NOMA 近 40 年，曾担任该期刊的主席并两次担任编辑。

Steven Lewis
From New York to L.A., D.C. to Detroit, and back to L.A., Steven Lewis has had a storied career working in both the public and private sectors. After two decades of design under his own firm, RAW International, Lewis is now Principal within the urban design practice at ZGF Architects. Advocacy for equality in architecture has been an integral part of his work, which the AIA recognized in 2016.
Lewis previously served as the Design Director for the Central Region of Detroit’s Department of Planning and Development while holding a Professorship in Practice at the University of Michigan, where his studio classes focused on community issues. He has also been active in NOMA for nearly 40 years, where he has served once as president and twice as the editor for their journal.


左：Sekou Cooke（来自Sekou Cooke）；右：靠近边缘：Hip-Hop建筑的诞生
Left: Sekou Cooke via  Sekou Cooke; Right: Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, New York, NY

Sekou Cooke

Sekou Cooke重点研究嘻哈文化对建筑环境的相互影响。通过讲座、著作和座谈会，他证明了歪曲黑人在塑造建筑环境方面的能动性对整个行业的不利。 他2018年在纽约建筑中心举办的展览“靠近边缘：嘻哈建筑的诞生”意图展示其中的一些想法； 同时这也是他即将出版的专著 Hip-Hop Architecture 的主题。

Cooke是 Sekou Cooke Studio的创始人和首席建筑师，同时也是雪城大学建筑学院的助理教授。 2021 年他的作品“重建：美国的建筑与黑暗”在 MoMA中展出。

Sekou Cooke’s research focuses on the impact of hip-hop culture on the built environment—and vice-versa. Through lectures, writings and symposia, he demonstrates that misrepresenting the agency of Black people in shaping the built environment disadvantages the discipline as a whole. His 2018 exhibition, Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, at the Center for Architecture in New York, aimed to present some of these ideas; it is also the subject of his upcoming monograph Hip-Hop Architecture.
Cooke is the founder and Principal Architect of Sekou Cooke Studio and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture. In 2021, his work featured in the MoMA exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.


左：华盛顿Howard剧院；右：Michael Marshall（来自Michael Marshall设计事务所）
Left: Howard Theatre, Washington, DC Right: Michael Marshall via Michael Marshall Design

Michael Marshall

华盛顿本土的Michael Marshall是 Michael Marshall Design 的设计总监和负责人。 该公司最初于 1989 年以 Michael Marshall Architects 的名字成立，多年后，公司已大大扩大了其视野和涉猎范围到如今的从建筑到室内设计和品牌推广。 Marshall参与了一系列著名项目，从历史悠久的霍华德剧院（美国最古老的非裔美国人表演厅之一）的重建到哥伦比亚特区大学的学生中心——他于 上世纪70 年代就读于哥伦比亚特区的技术学校。

他创意的方法和出色的设计得到了业界广泛的认可，并获得了 AIA、ULI 和 NOMA 的奖项，他的作品已经被史密森尼国家非裔美国人历史和文化博物馆的建筑档案馆所收藏。

DC-based Michael Marshall is the Design Director and Principal of Michael Marshall Design. Originally founded in 1989 under the name Michael Marshall Architects, over the years the firm has considerably expanded the its scope and reach, which now ranges from architecture to interiors and branding. Marshall has participated in a range of notable projects, from the redesign of the historic Howard Theatre (one of the country’s oldest African American performance halls) to the Student Center at the University of the District of Columbia—the technical school where he studied in the 1970s.
His creative approach and standout designs have been widely recognized, with awards from AIA, ULI, and NOMA, and his body of work has already been accepted into the architectural archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.