WHO ARE THE "OTHER"
5000 FACES in ARCHITECTURE
05 - GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT UNION - 2014
HARVARD UNIV.
I was born and raised in Kinshasa, D.R.Congo, where I attended high school. Through a combination of good grades and an associate of my father at the Polish embassy, I received a scholarship to study Architecture in Poland. It was a great experience, I got a good education and moved to the US after.
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#10 Susan Surface
#24 MINA CHOW, AIA
23 - HOMER PEREZ, IARA BACHMANN, DIANA MONTOYA, NORA ENRIQUEZ, JULIO SORIANO
LATINOS IN ARCHITECTURE (Lia/AIA) - SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER - 2014
Sekou Cooke: It's a subject that's been talked about and thought about for at least 20 years. In 2009, Craig Wilkins, at the University of Michigan, published The Aesthetics of Equity (University of Minnesota Press). To me, it's almost like a hip-hop architecture instruction manual. He talks about otherness, how spaces are designed for inclusion or exclusion, who is being included or excluded, and the potential of hip-hop architecture to be more inclusive to underrepresented groups.
ARCHITECT: Describe the connection between hip-hop and architecture.
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DESIGN FOR SOCIAL IMPACT
#52 FIRMIN SENGA, AIA
I was born in the South most eastern point of Texas along the Mexican border in the poorest region of the United States where 34% of the population lives in poverty, the majority of Mexican background as myself.
I recently completed my first professional degree, Masters in Architecture from the University of Southern CA, in Los Angeles.
It's long been a goal of mine to increase diversity across racial and socioeconomic lines, and I believe this needs to start early in life. The product of a blended Asian immigrant and American working-class family, I am the first in my immediate family to finish high school, let alone attend college and earn a graduate degree. The longer I've been involved in the education and profession of architecture, the more I realize how anomalous my background seems to be. The barriers for entry to the field, including education, are financially and logistically prohibitive to many, and creating a more equitable culture within our profession will allow more voices to shape our built environment.
Professor Chow is interested in expanding the awareness of architecture and design by bringing compelling and passionate stories about the built environment to film, television and multi-media. Currently, she is directing and producing "FACES OF A NATION: What Happened at the World's Fair?" a feature documentary about World's Fairs.
I am in the middle of transitioning from teaching for the past 3 years at Tulane School of Architecture. This Fall, I begin teaching at Skidmore, a small liberal arts college. While the audience will be different, my focus will still be on the social aspects of design, architectural history, urban history, cultural heritage, and historic preservation.
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