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The architect & founder of Beyond the Built Environment discusses the challenges of dismantling racial injustice from within a system that has perpetuated it.

"We need an understanding of how architecture is very much complicit in injustice," says Mabel Wilson, one of the Memorial's designers. See new images from the demonstration in this updated story.

“Architecture’s failure to address the mechanisms of inequity within its own system is willful ignorance at best,” writes practitioner and educator Cory Henry.

"It is our responsibility to work together to break down the barriers that start in architecture school and continue into the firm and workplace that exclude far too many," writes the Board of Directors in a statement to its members published June 4.

Soaring 1,000 feet, the mixed-use skyscraper would become the city’s—and country’s—tallest.

"Maybe there is a parallel to be drawn between the lack of Black perspectives within the architectural 'we' and the inability of the architectural profession to find a suitable response to the current state of social justice," writes architect and educator Sekou Cooke.

As protests against racial injustice continue around the world, some architecture school leaders are speaking out about the killing of George Floyd and systemic inequalities in the United States.

For two nights in a row, the skyscraper—which is home to Architectural Record's offices—has turned off its lights. We editors join our many colleagues in architecture and design in expressing our sorrow and calling for an end to inequality, injustice and systemic racism.

"Before we can confidently advocate for greater economic opportunities for architects of color, we need to ensure that those very people are first able to breathe," writes NOMA president Kimberly Dowdell.

A growing roster of groups—including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the American Society of Landscape Architects, AIANY, and Architectural League of New York—are speaking out.