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15 Essential Architecture and Design Reads for 2023

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    The Best Resources Linking Sustainability and Equity

    The Best Resources Linking Sustainability and Equity This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to expand your green building practice to include social equity. By: Metropolis Editors Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy Many architects and designers approach design equity from a background in sustainable design. The link between the two movements is clear …

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    The Best Tools for Equity in Architecture and Design Supply Chains

    The Best Tools for Equity in Architecture and Design Supply Chains This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to target equity in building material supply chains and vendor relationships. By: Metropolis Editors Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy Architecture and design are inherently collaborative undertakings, reliant on teams of construction workers to build buildings …

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    The Best Tools for Creating Equity in Design Firms

    The Best Tools for Creating Equity in Design Firms This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to help you promote fairness and justice within your firm. By: Metropolis Editors Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy A crucial first step in achieving equitable design is having a project team whose professionals have the lived experience …

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    Design for Equity Primer: 20+ Resources to Help You Design Inclusively and Fairly

    December 13, 2022 Design for Equity Primer: 20+ Resources to Help You Design Inclusively and Fairly This primer is a handy guide to toolkits, manuals, certifications, and indexes that can help you design with justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind. By: Metropolis Editors Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy A fundamental purpose of architecture and design practice …

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    Cheryl Durst Talks Agency, Equity, and Why IIDA Is Engaging Kids

    COURTESY RYAN MCDONALD October 28, 2021 Cheryl Durst Talks Agency, Equity, and Why IIDA Is Engaging Kids The organization's vice president and CEO shares her excitement about a new pipeline for young talent and her hopes for the upcoming year. By: Kelly Beamon This month’s NeoCon furniture fair in Chicago, held in-person …

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    How Yale Professor Robert Reed Built Equity in Art and Architecture Classrooms

    … other professors also offered some version of a basic drawing class, but it was common knowledge among students that Reed’s was the one—embodying principles of equity, process, rigor, and community. For some of his former students, these lessons directly influenced their creative practices and teachings. For those who did not pursue art or …

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    How Yale Professor Robert Reed Built Equity in Art and Architecture Classrooms

    The artist Robert Reed in his Derby Avenue studio in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1972 Courtesy the Robert Reed Estate How Yale Professor Robert Reed Built Equity in Art and Architecture Classrooms A former student reflects on her mentor’s celebration of cognitive diversity and the way the late Yale University of Art professor brought …

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    Future100: Alek Tomich Addresses Equity in the Built Environment

    … s diverse population. Courtesy Alek Tomich Inspired by the transformative events of 2020, Columbia University graduate student Alek Tomich shifted the focus of his studies to address equity across different scales of the built environment. “I’m interested in analyzing the sociopolitical context of a building or site and the implications associated with deploying a …

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    Addressing the Intersecting Challenges of Climate Change, Housing, and Social Equity

    … 19 pandemic, and homelessness. Their comments reinforced the value of visionary leadership, engaging and empowering people, and design thinking—all key themes from previous sessions on Planning Equity, Engaging Communities via Food and Education, and Building Equity with Housing and Parks. In Fostering Innovative Civic Leadership, creators of the La Kretz Innovation Campus (2017 RBA …

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    The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Launches a Speaker Series Dedicated to Planning Equity

    … Crockett, the City of Boston’s first Chief of Equity, and her book, People Before Highways Courtesy Karilyn Crockett The speaker series launched on January 20 with Equity and the City, featuring a conversation with Dr. Karilyn Crockett. As the City of Boston’s first Chief of Equity, a new cabinet-level position created by …