{"id":63057,"date":"2024-12-23T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=63057"},"modified":"2025-04-02T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:17:00","slug":"new-book-by-architecture-faculty-amplifies-diverse-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/2024\/12\/23\/new-book-by-architecture-faculty-amplifies-diverse-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book by Architecture Faculty Amplifies Diverse Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It has been six decades since Charlotte architect and former mayor Harvey B. Gantt desegregated Clemson University<\/a> and earned a degree in architecture. In 1970, just one year before Gantt and Jeffrey Huberman founded North Carolina\u2019s first racially integrated architecture firm, the Ford Foundation joined the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in a $1 million initiative to provide 70 full tuition scholarships to architecture schools for minority students<\/a>. At that time, 2% of architects in the United States were Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much has changed in the intervening half-century, but that number has remained the same. While the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) reported in July 2024 that \u201cNew Architects Are Increasingly Diverse<\/a>,\u201d the population of licensed architects in the U.S. is 62% white and male, and Black architects still make up just 2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those statistics are at the heart of Margin & Text: Amplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture<\/em><\/a>, a new book edited by David R. Ravin School of Architecture faculty Betsy West, Kelly Carlson-Reddig, and J\u00f3s\u00e9 G\u00e1mez, who is also dean of the College of Arts + Architecture. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, Margin & Text<\/em> is a wide-ranging collection of essays, reflections, definitions, facts, and images from the past and the present that foreground the contributions of those who too often remain on the sidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur contributors are a rich amalgam of Black, white, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Indian, and Pacific Islander,” West writes in the book\u2019s introduction. \u201cEach is a unique manifestation of their lived experience…they have different points of view about architecture, and together they give us an unfamiliar but exciting picture of what architecture in the United States could be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book\u2019s contents include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n