Resources on Anti-Racism
In June 2020, we published our Statement on Anti-Racism in response to the epochal uprising across the country and around the world in response to the killing of George Floyd, and the reckoning that is underway in the design disciplines to address the long-standing complicity with systemic racism.
Since then, we have been struck by the cogent demands that have emerged to restructure faculties, decolonize curricula, invest in equity, and end the biases that, as the National Organization of Minority Architects has put it, “prevent people of color from entering into and thriving in the profession of architecture.” We’ve been heartened by the students, educators, schools, designers, firms, professional bodies, museums, and organizations that have shared resources to help guide us, in education and in practice, to do better.
As we continue to grapple with our own efforts, we’ve begun to collect the books, articles, letters, statements, manifestos, and syllabi we have been inspired by in this reading list, which we hope will become an ongoing record of resources on anti-racism in design.
Because we want this to be a living and up-to-date document, we invite you to share your recommendations for further additions. Contact us at [email protected]
CURRICULA + BIBLIOGRAPHIES
'Race' and Space: A New Curriculum
Space/Race Reading List
Race, Space, and Architecture: An Open Access Curriculum
SAHARA Highlights: African American Architects
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
Anti-Racism Resources for Non-Profits
Anti-Racism Resources for our Community
Black in Design
Places Journal
PEOPLE, FIRMS + PROGRAMS
BIPOC-Owned Design Studios
200+ Black Creators
HBCUs with Architecture + Design Programs
New Architecture Writers: A Free Programme for BAME Design Critics
Bay Area Authors on Racial Justice and Equity
LETTERS, STATEMENTS + MANIFESTOS
Call to Action to Seek a More Equitable Future
ACSP Statement to the Killing of George Floyd and Black Faculty Response
Notes on Credibility: A statement from the African American Student Union (AASU) and AfricaGSD to Harvard Graduate School of Design
Statements of Solidarity from Architecture School Leaders
The Architectural League Statement and Resources on Race and Architecture
BlackSpace Manifesto
Unlearning Whiteness: A Statement from the Black Faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
An Open Letter from Concerned Black Workers at the Free Library of Philadelphia
NOMA’s Public Statement Regarding Racial Injustice
Open Letter to the President from Faculty, Princeton University
Letter to the School of Arts and Architecture, UCLA
Open Letter to the YSoA in Support of BLM
Confronting Prejudice
EVENTS + RECORDINGS
Symposium: Segregation and Resistance in America’s Urban Landscapes
Roundtable: What is an Antiracist Architectural History?
GAHTC
Symposium: Shifting the Landscape: Black Architects and Planners, 1968 to Now
Roundtable: Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
Society of Architectural Historians
Eduard F. Sekler Talk 2020: Home of the Oppressed
Society of Architectural Historians
ARTICLES + BOOKS
The Race + Diversity Survey
163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America
The Atlantic
Articles on Race and Architecture
Black People Have Been Building a Better World. Who Will Join Them?
Next City
Harvard Students Are Teaching Harvard How to Be Anti-Racist
Curbed
Architecture Needs a Culture Shift
Architect Magazine
Opinion: Blackout — Amplifying the Voices of Blackness Within Architecture
Architectural Record
15 Architects on Being Black in Architecture
Cultured
Opinion: In Education and Practice, Architecture Fails to Hear Black Voices
Architectural Record
I Could Have Been Ahmaud Arbery
The Dirt, ASLA
Architecture is systemically racist. So what is the profession going to do about it?
Architects' Journal
The Color of Law
Norton
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Verso