Max Bond, FAIA, the dean of African-American architects, passed away in February.

Architecture still suffers from a paucity of African-American practitioners.

Across the country, design-centered high schools are helping increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos in the field.

A culminating chapter in a century-long push to create a black-history museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., began April 14, when National Museum of African American History and Culture (AAHC) director Lonnie Bunch announced that the team Freelon Adjaye Bond and SmithGroup had been selected to design the museum’s new building at the base of the Washington Monument.