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The Future of Practice: Interview with Imani Day of RVSN Studios

The Detroit-based architect puts her focus on socially conscious work
Pansy Schulman
April 20, 2022
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Imani Day of RVSN Studios in Detroit spoke to RECORD about how good design can coexist with communities in need.
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Interview with Designer, Engineer, and Educator Felecia Davis

Davis works at the intersection of architecture, textiles, design, and technology
Ilana Herzig
February 25, 2022
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The director of Penn State’s SOFTLAB and founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective explores designing responsive textiles for inhabitable spaces.


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Tiara Hughes

Interview with Tiara Hughes

The founder of First 500 and a senior urban designer at SOM talks about helping other Black women architects advance their careers
Jennifer Krichels
December 9, 2021
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A pioneering Black woman architect is pushing to make it easier for others to follow their dreams.
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Interview with Mark Chambers

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Joann Gonchar, FAIA
July 6, 2021
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The architect speaks with RECORD about his new role in President Biden’s administration.


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Germane Barnes.

Interview with Germane Barnes

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Kara Mavros
May 25, 2021
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The Miami-based architectural designer talks to RECORD about his recent accolades and the road that led to them.
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De Nichols

Interview with Designer-Activist De Nichols

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Kara Mavros
September 29, 2020
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The St. Louis–based artist, educator, and 2020 Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow has been using her “visual voice” to condemn racial injustices for over a decade.
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Black Voices in Architecture

Black Voices in Architecture

September 1, 2020
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RECORD interrogates the ways that racism is embedded in the profession—from the whiteness of our Eurocentric history and built environment to education, licensure, and practice.
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Three Architects Discuss Whiteness and Racism in the Built Environment

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Cathleen McGuigan
July 30, 2020
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RECORD convened a panel of three professionals in practice and education—Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, and Justin Garrett Moore—to explore how racism has shaped, and operated within, the profession of architecture.
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Opinion: Blackout — Amplifying the Voices of Blackness Within Architecture

Architect and educator Sekou Cooke considers the role of the profession in confronting historically entrenched racism and violence in the U.S.
Sekou Cooke
June 4, 2020
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"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.
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