Less Talk More Action: Conscious Shifts in Architectural Education

The PhD Project: Co-opting Business Practices to Diversify Architecture Faculty

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Mo Zell & Jori Erdman

The architecture profession has a diversity problem and it begins in the academic setting. The statistics are grim. There are 2300 black licensed architects in the US. According to the Directory of African American Architects and the latest data from NCARB, this number accounts for only 2% of all licensees. On the academic side, the 2015 ACSA Atlas data shows that full-time faculty of color are less than 20% with less than 5% African American. In response to these statistics, a group of faculty have gathered to develop the Future Faculty Workshop, a program aimed at increasing the number of minority professionals through increasing faculty of color in professional programs in the US.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.FALL.19.22

Volume Editors
Amy Larimer, Deborah Berke, Diana Lin, Drew Krafcik, John Barton & Sunil Bald

ISBN
978-1-944214-24-1