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African-American architects are those in the architectural profession who are African American in the United States. Their work in the more distant past was often overlooked or outright erased from the historical records due to the racist social dynamics at play in the country (and also due to the proxied nature of the profession itself), but the black members of the profession—and their historic contributions—have become somewhat more recognized since.[1][2]
"The experience of being Black in architecture involves learning about a discipline that does not include the contributions of African American architects like Paul Revere Williams, Robert R. Taylor, Walter T. Bailey and Wallace Rayfield within the canons of the profession... The experience of being Black in architecture requires you to unearth the accomplishments of other Blacks in architecture to understand how they navigated the often tumultuous waters of the profession."
Kwesi Daniels, 2020, department head at the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University[1]
- ^ a b Fazzare, Elizabeth (2020-08-06). "15 Architects On Being Black In Architecture". Cultured Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-09-27. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ Davis, Kimberly (October 2005). "Black Architects: Embracing and Defining". Ebony. Vol. 60. Johnson Publishing Company. pp. 108–114. ISSN 0012-9011.