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Architecture for Change (ARCH), a newly launched nonprofit initiative dedicated to addressing systemic racism in the architecture and design industry, is kicking off with an online auction featuring donated works sketches, models, plans, photographic prints, and more from a host of notable architects including Sir David Adjaye, Daniel Libeskind, Michel Rojkind, David Rockwell, Jennifer Bonner, Trey Trahan, and others.
Net proceeds from the auction, which kicked off December 14 and finished December 20, will benefit the Desiree V. Cooper Memorial Fund, a scholarship for Black women architecture students established by the Architects Foundation in honor of the fund’s namesake, a Washington, D.C.-area architect who passed away in 2015. As noted by a press release from ARCH, Cooper, who was a Black woman, “is recognized for using her practice to improve and make long-lasting social change within communities.” African American women are wildly underrepresented in the architec
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Architects Foundation announces recipients for the 2021 Richard Morris Hunt Prize
Laureates receive a 6-month or 5-week travel fellowship to France to conduct cutting-edge research in historic preservation.
WASHINGTON – Dec. 17, 2020 - The Architects
Foundation, the Amis du Richard Morris Hunt Prize and the French Heritage
Society today announced the 2021
recipients of the Richard Morris Hunt Prize, a travel fellowship to France for
architects pursuing cutting-edge research on emerging trends in historic
preservation.
Jonathan Bell, AIA, of
Providence, R.I. will receive a $20,000 travel fellowship to carry out research
over six months on resources for stabilizing abandoned buildings which are
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David Adjaye s gold sketch of multifaith complex The Abrahamic Family House and Mark Foster Gage s satirical plan for a Trump presidential library are among works for sale in an auction fundraising to support black women in architecture school.
Organised by architectural initiative ARCH, the auction launches today and will run for one week to raise funds for a scholarship programme for black women. To tackle systemic racism in the field of architecture and design, we need to make studying these subjects more accessible to aspiring black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) architects, who have historically been underrepresented and under-supported, said ARCH, which stands for Architecture for Change.