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Diversity
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Viewpoints
40 Years of Metropolis and the Future of Architecture and Design
Celebrating 40 years of Metropolis, the July/August issue looks back on decades of groundbreaking ideas and digs in to challenging topics like diversity and equity in the design industry.
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Profiles
Queeries Is Documenting the Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Architects and Designers
The ongoing survey of queer architects, designers, and students aims to challenge the discourse of diversity and inclusion.
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Profiles
ASID Announces Winners and Scholars of the Ones to Watch Program
The annual award aims to foster an inclusive design community by recognizing and supporting rising designers from underrepresented groups.
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GAME CHANGERS: Rosa Sheng and Equity by Design Are Using Data to Make Architecture More Equitable
Equity by Design’s work—which includes architects like Lilian Asperin, Julia Mandell, and Annelise Pitts—is collaborative and cumulative, rooted in feminist activism and building on work by multiple groups.
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How NOMA Is Helping Architects of Color to Shape Our Future Cities
Metropolis speaks with Kimberly Dowdell, the Detroit-based president of NOMA, about her vision for expanding the influence of architects of color.
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The Architecture Lobby Launches Case Studies of Fair Labor Firms
The Lobby’s Just Design initiative, hosted on Archinect, identifies 25 exceptional firms and plans a future certification.
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Year in Review 2018: Shift Practice to Shift the Landscape
Our contributors comment on an event or a moment from the last year that demanded more of how we should practice, frame, and respond to design.
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Five Takeaways from the AIA’s Guide for Equitable Practice
Today, the American Institute of Architects issued the first of three sets of guidelines on workplace culture. But will it impact the profession for the better?
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Hip-Hop Architecture’s Philip Johnson Moment
A new show at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture makes the case for a growing global design movement that is forging its own canon.
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Center for Architecture Unpacks the Legacy—and Unfinished Business—of Activist Whitney M. Young
The gallery at the AIA New York Chapter takes an unflinching look at the civil rights leader’s call to action, 50 years later.
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In the Wake of #MeToo, Equity Is Put Front and Center at AIA Conference
This year’s annual AIA summit had a notably more diverse and inclusive program, but still alluded to the significant challenges ahead.
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Projects
After #MeToo, the AA’s Celebration of Women in Architecture Is More Necessary Than Ever
The legendary London design school mounted AA XX 100, showcasing a century of women-led architecture.
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Viewpoints
How to Get More Minority Students in Architecture? Look to 1968
Columbia University's radical experiments of the late 1960s were tremendously successful in recruiting and retaining minority students. Can we apply them again today?
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Viewpoints
Spotlight: Five Asian American Women in Design
While women of color continue to face challenges in the design professions, these five designers are scaling new heights—and should be on your radar.
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Diversity Champions: 8 Schools That Aren’t Just Paying Lip Service To Diversity
Many colleges are working to be more inclusive, but these architecture and design schools are going above and beyond.
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Projects
SCI-Arc Launches Scholarship for L.A. Public School Students
The experimental architecture school announced a new merit scholarship in an effort to re-affirm its deep connection to the city.