{"id":50241,"date":"2016-01-06T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/betsy-west\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:46:11","slug":"betsy-west","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/betsy-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Betsy West is an Associate Professor in the David R. Ravin School of Architecture. She received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and practiced professionally with several firms, including The Freelon Group before joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte in 1998. She is a licensed architect in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her scholarship and teaching focus on the relationship of architecture to its context, issues of diversity in the profession, and humanitarian design processes and projects. 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She has also taught numerous courses focused on writing in the discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently she is working on a book about diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in architecture, forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press, Spring 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EXPLORE HER&nbsp;RECENT WORK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Coming soon:<br>&#8220;South Sudan Board&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong><br>Humanitarian Need: Education and Civil War in&nbsp;South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Only education will bring&nbsp;us peace.&#8221;<br><em>(Lubo Mijak)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Coming soon:<br>&#8220;Margin &amp; Text &#8211; Voices on the Verge Intro&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><br>In response to our history there has emerged an insistence among majority architects (which is\u00a0almost all of us) that difference doesn&#8217;t matter \u2013 that we don&#8217;t see people in terms of skin color, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomics, politics, gender identification, etc.\u00a0Hence this publication, a collection of the 2020-21 lecture series at the School of Architecture at the\u00a0University of North Carolina, Charlotte. 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