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Equity
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Programs
Calling all Responsible Disruptors in Architecture and Design!
Metropolis's Responsible Disruptors program seeks to recognize the best A&D Tech and Research that changes the world for the better.
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Profiles
Cheryl Durst Talks Agency, Equity, and Why IIDA Is Engaging Kids
The IIDA's vice president and CEO discusses inclusion, a new pipeline for young talent, and her hopes for the upcoming year.
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Viewpoints
Understanding the Available City at the Chicago Architectural Biennial
A tour of the Damen Silos and a celebration of the Wall of Respect show a biennial struggling to achieve longer-term engagement with the city it calls home.
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Projects
AUX Architecture Designs a Building That’s a Beacon of Light
The Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center expands a synagogue and meeting space into a dynamic educational and performance venue in West L.A.
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Programs
Harnessing Community for Climate Justice
A Perspective: Sustainability panel finds common ground between sustainable design and social justice.
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Viewpoints
Two New Residencies Offer Indigenous Voices a Platform for Design Innovation
Architects Chris T. Cornelius and Anjelica Gallegos discuss their experiences as inaugural fellows at two New York–based programs.
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Viewpoints
Grace Farms Takes Aim at Modern Slavery in the Building Industry
The foundation’s Design for Freedom report and initiative aim to raise awareness about forced labor in material supply chains and construction.
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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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Viewpoints
Six Initiatives Model Ways to Practice True Design Justice
Across the globe, architects, designers, and planners are redefining what it means to be an advocate in the design professions.
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Projects
In Palo Alto, a House for Deaf Clients Provides Clarity
Terry and Terry architecture put DeafSpace concepts into practice with plenty of space, even lighting, and clever visual cues.
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Viewpoints
Torkwase Dyson Reflects on Hyper Shapes
A series of drawings that explore how enslaved people who sought freedom used the built environment inform the artists' ideas around nomadicity, liberation, movement, and perception.
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Projects
Three Projects Put Community First
A hospital in Senegal, a museum in Winnipeg, and an urban planning intervention in Los Angeles demonstrate a sea change in architecture and the process of community engagement.
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Viewpoints
Why Aren’t Black Firms Working on Memorials to Slavery?
A new memorial in Virginia is the latest cultural project acknowledging a debt to enslaved African Americans. But the most high-profile commissions and contracts are hardly ever awarded to African-American firms.
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Profiles
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 design to a broad group of learners, ahead of his time.
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Viewpoints
Barbara Bestor on Du Bois’s Data Portraits
The Los Angeles–based architect shares how this collection of infographics and visionary drawings kept her mind busy during quarantine
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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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Viewpoints
A New Exhibition Makes Motherhood Visible Through Design
Organized by Egg Collective and Tealia Ellis Ritter, Designing Women III: MOTHER brings together 28 artists and designers—all of them mothers.
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Profiles
Future100: Alek Tomich Addresses Equity in the Built Environment
For this graduate student, architecture needs to be more accessible—and his mission is to bring that to fruition.
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Viewpoints
Landscape Architecture Has a Labor Acknowledgement Problem
To better acknowledge, respect, and compensate laborers, landscape design firm Terremoto calls for a fundamental reimagining of how professional practice is structured.
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Viewpoints
Designers Join Forces to Provide Relief for Victims of the Atlanta Shooting
More than 80 participating designers and retail outlets will raffle objects and furnishings as a part of #DesignForATL, which concludes Sunday.