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The City of Tulsa announced it has chosen the Moody Nolan/JCJ Architecture team to renovate the Greenwood Cultural Center.
Moody Nolan is one of the largest Black-owned architectural firms in the U.S. The firm has designed multiple African American historical and cultural projects across the country. According to
KTUL, Moody Nolan was also the first Black-owned firm to win the 2021 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year award.
“We look forward to bringing our national presence and expertise on cultural facilities to the Greenwood Cultural Center,” Curt Moody, founder and chairman of the board of Moody Nolan told
10 Questions With… Curtis and Jonathan Moody
February 22, 2021
By Edie Cohen
Moody Nolan has much to celebrate. Black History Month is one. Receiving the 2021 AIA Architecture Firm Award is another. Still another is its diversity. The Black-owned and led firm with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, and 10 more offices nationwide counts 42 percent women and 32 percent identifying as minorities in its staff of 230. Kudos to the team, but especially to Curtis J. Moody who had the vision and bravery to start an architecture firm in 1982 in the midst of an economic downturn with just one graduate student. By year’s end, however, Moody and Associates had grown to nine staff members, and Curtis joined forces with the engineering firm Howard E. Nolan and Associates. Ergo the name of the father-son-helmed firm we know today. Its mantra is “responsive,” the precept applying to architecture, interior design, and experiential design comprising the studio’s vast portfolio across commer
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Like millions of Black Americans across the country, Curt Moody has seen more than his share of injustice over the decades. Such intentional display of inequality in the field of architecture is what prompted him in 1982 to open Moody Nolan.
Father-son duo Curt Moody and Jonathan Moody of Moody Nolan. Photo credit: Moody Nolan
The Connor Group Headquarters. Photo credit: Brad Feinknopf
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Martin Luther King Jr. Branch Library in Columbus, OH. Photo credit: Brad Feinknopf
This is the first time a Black-owned architecture firm has ever received the AIA Architecture Firm Award .