2022 READING LIST
1/3/22 Our Workplaces Think We’re Computers. We’re Not. (Podcast – The Ezra Klein Show)
1/10/22 Design for All requires a culture change in architecture (AIA.org)
1/17/22 Letter from Birmingham Jail (by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., full text posted by the University of Pennsylvania)
1/24/22 A Growing List of More Than 100 BIPOC Designers and Architects Just Started Circulating (Dwell)
1/31/22 The Future of Affordable Housing (Architectural Record)
2/7/22 The Myths That Undermine Racial Equity at Work (Harvard Business Review online)
2/14/22 The Pursuit and Promise of Equity in Architecture (Architect)
2021 READING LIST
2/15 Inheriting Inequality ( Austin-American Statesman)
2/22 9 Things Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead Of Getting Defensive (Everyday Feminism)
3/1 Racism is built into U.S. cities. Here’s how architects can fight back. (Fast Company)
3/8 Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation (The New York Times)
3/15 Be Part of the Change (Architect)
3/22 Responses to AAPI Racism
PBS Series Documents The History Of Asian Americans Over 150 Years (NPR)
The History of Anti-Asian Sentiment in the U.S. (NPR)
Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different (The Atlantic)
We would also like to recommend this list of resources to support AAPI Communities, from Creative Capital.
3/29 Nice White Parents Episode 1: The Book of Statuses (The New York Times)
4/5 How Diversity and Inclusion Can Drive Team Performance (Workology)
4/12 CODE SWITCH Podcast Series (NPR)
4/19 1619 Podcast Series (The New York Times)
4/26 15 Architects on Being Black in Architecture (CULTURED Magazine)
5/3 Hidden In Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation (The New York Times)
5/10 Where Do We Go From Here? (99% Invisible)
5/17 Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has) (TED)
5/24 America’s Mothers Are in Crisis (The New York Times)
5/31 Design Voice Podcast: Conversations with women who shape the built environment (Design Voice)
6/7 Tips for Being an Ally Against Racism (PDF) (Dr. Shirley Davis)
6/14 A year of challenge, and opportunity, driving change for women architects (AIA)
6/21 A New Exhibition Makes Motherhood Visible Through Design (Metropolis)
6/28 Episode 10\\ Architecture and the Social Justice Narrative, Germane Barnes · Urblandia Podcast (Spotify)
7/5 How Can Blackness Construct America? (The New York Times)
7/12 How can we design for Black futures? (Greater Greater Washington)
7/19 The “Problem” Woman of Color in the Workplace (Center for Community Organizations – COCo)
7/26 For Moody Nolan—the Largest Black-Owned Architectural Firm in the U.S.—Diversity Is Power (Architectural Digest)
8/2 Mónica Ponce de León on the Future of Architectural Licensure (Archinect)
8/9 IG Post: How to retain black talent in the workplace (@socialfixt)
8/16 Outrage: architectural spin (The Architectural Review)
8/23 Tomorrow’s world: nurturing young talent and voices (The Architectural Review)
9/6 Why Can’t the U.S. Decolonize Its Design Education? (AIGA)
9/13 How Relevant is New Urbanism in an Age of Climate Change, Racial Inequity, and Housing Scarcity? (Common Edge)
9/20 Schools and Prisons (Agreggate)
9/27 E2. Dr. Mabel O. Wilson, Architect and Scholar. (The Institute of Black Imagination Podcast)
10/11 Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership (CODE SWITCH on NPR)
10/18 LAMCAST: Women of Color as Design Leaders (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
10/25 Social Inequality, As Seen From The Sky (ArchDaily)
11/1 Op-Ed: Architecture critics have a duty to interrogate inequality in the built environment (The Architect’s Newspaper)
11/8 Before Brown by Gary M. Lavergne
11/15 Shaping the Equitable City (Blueprint for Better – AIA)
11/22 AD and equity (Center for Active Design)
11/29 Building Accessibility Into America, Literally (The New York Times)
12/6 Excerpt: Justice from the Ground Up by Julie Bargmann (Harvard University Graduate School of Design)
12/13 Accessible design is growing. Can it be beautiful? (The Washington Post)
Have you read something that especially moved you in this realm? Send your suggestions to Ingrid!