September 2021 | Daniela Márquez
Daniela "Dani" Márquez (M.Arch '20) is a Designer at Gensler in Atlanta, GA. As a member of the Work studio, she incorporates her skills in interior design, architecture, and research to shape the future of the workplace. She has a passion for creation at the human scale, interdisciplinary and participatory ideation processes, and equitable design outcomes.
- Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
- Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
- Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak
- Deem Journal Stories
- "Migration" | TED Radio Hour
- "Antiracism & Immigration: People First" | Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi
- "Pa'lante" by Hurray for the Riff Raff (on Spotify/Apple Music)
- 13th directed by Ava DuVernay (available on Netflix)
- Amend: The Fight for America (available on Netflix)
- Gentefied (available on Netflix)
- Loudreading Post-Colonial Imaginaries (SCI-Arc Lecture) by Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Architecture Think Tank
June 2021 | Chelsea Davis
Chelsea Davis (M.Arch '19) is a Designer for Perkins+Will in Raleigh-Durham, NC where she is heavily involved in civil and cultural projects. Recently Chelsea joined the Georgia Tech chapter of NOMAS as a panelist in the School of Architecture's Black Alumni Panel.
- This book does not necessarily speak on issues of equity, diversity, inclusion or justice in the traditional sense, but rather touches on something I mentioned during the talk by breaking down the topic of love and what it really means to love—a very important ingredient when it comes to all of the aforementioned topics.
SAULT "But this music is about more than just sound, it offers compelling comment on the world we live in. Untitled (Black Is), which arrived in June, is a vital companion piece to the Black Lives." from Music Weekly article titled Making Waves: Sault
- I find that their music provides a very interesting way to freely express and feel some of what is being felt by so many in times that have been increasingly frustrating and trying. I also appreciate the infusion of impending liberation and joy that are mixed in with the very truths they so soulfully bring forth.
- Some of my favorite listens: Wildfires (from Untitled (Black Is), Son Shine (from Untitled (Rise), and We Are the Sun (from album titled 5)
The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 - https://www.nytimes.com/article/latino-movies.html
- I do not have a specific movie or documentary to share at the moment, so I figure I would share a list of films recently circulated in my office highlighting noteworthy Hispanic/Latino stories in film compiled by The New York Times as a way for readers to engage in the different realities relating to these communities.
May 2021 | Amber Wiley
Amber Wiley is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers University. Her research interests center on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities - architecture as a literal and figural structure of power. She focuses on the ways local and national bodies have made the claim for the dominating narrative and collective memory of cities and examines how preservation and public history contribute to the creation and maintenance of the identity and sense of place of a city. Her current book project is entitled Concrete Solutions: Architecture, Activism and Black Power in the Nation’s Capital.
- Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother (2006): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531157
- Clint Smith, Counting Descent (2016): https://www.clintsmithiii.com/book-of-poems
Natasha - Trethewey, Monument (2018): https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Monument/9780358118237
- BellHooks, Art On My Mind (1995): https://thenewpress.com/books/art-on-my-mind
- Architecture is Political Podcast: https://www.archispolly.online/episodes
- Tangible Remnants Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1210955
April 2021 | Christopher Burke
Christopher Burke, Executive Director of Community Relations at Georgia Tech, is an educator, strategist, and public relations professional with more than twenty-years of experience in education, urban planning, and community development. Chris began his professional career working as a housing coordinator for The Atlanta Project, a non-profit created by former President Jimmy Carter focused on improving living conditions in Atlanta’s most impoverished neighborhoods. It was this experienced that spurred Chris’s interest in understanding the impact housing policies have on equity and quality of life.
McKinsey & Company – The Color of Wealth
Westbrook, T’Pring, and Akilah Watkins-Butler. The Case for Economic Inclusion: Examining Community Wealth Building Strategies in South Atlanta and Clayton County. The Kendeda Fund.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House, 2020.
Experts on Expert with Dax Shepard – Episode 107, Interview with Michael Eric Dyson - https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/michael-eric-dyson
The Paycheck Podcast (season 3) - https://www.bloomberg.com/the-paycheck. Bloomberg Equality.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Racism and the Economy https://www.minneapolisfed.org/policy/racism-and-the-economy
Marion Anderson Documentary – https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/marian-anderson-documentary/14262/
ABC’s Soul of a Nation - https://abc.com/shows/soul-of-a-nation
March 2021 | Danielle Willkens
Danielle is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture, and the co-chair of the School's Equity, Justice, and Inclusion task force alongside Herman Howard. Since 2016, Danielle has participated in the research and documentation project for the spatial reconstruction of Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. She is currently the co-PI, with Auburn Assoc. Prof Junshan Liu, conducting a Historic Structures Report on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, funded by the NPS African American Civil Rights Grant Program.
- Boone, Kohi, “Notes Toward a History of Black Landscape Architecture” Places Journal, October 2020.
- Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Read online through the GT library.
- “Building a Foundation for Action: Anti-Racists Historic Preservation Resources” from Columbia University
- “Talking about Race” from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- “Let’s Reconsider That Indigenous Tattoo” by Tammy Eagle Bull, FAIA (Oglala Lakota Nation, first licensed female American Indian in the U.S.)
- “Manzanar” from 99% Invisible
- “White Lies” from NPR
- 56th Anniversary Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee free registration for online events March 5-7
- “Removal of Confederate Monuments from Public Space” from SAH Connects
- “Safe Space” by Lesley Lokko
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites and the World Heritage List
February 2021 | GT NOMAS
The Georgia Tech chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (GT-NOMAS) thrives to build a strong chapter of involved architecture students whose interests include the promotion of diversity--both in the academic and professional environments--and passions for design excellence, community engagement, and professional development. Follow @gt_nomas on Instagram!
- "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
- "Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" by Victor Rios
- "Sorry to Bother You" on Hulu, Director :Boots Riley
- "Dear White People" on Netflix
January 2021 | Vernelle A. A. Noel
Vernelle Noel is Assistant Professor of Architecture + Computational Design at the University of Florida College of Design, Construction, and Planning. Vernelle also served as the Ventulett NEXT Fellow at Georgia Tech from 2018 - 2020.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
'1619,' a Podcast from the New York Times presented by Nikole Hannah-Hones
December 2020 | Herman Howard
Herman Howard is a lecturer in the School of Architecture. Herman’s studios often deal with architectural problems set within urban fabrics, mainly within the Atlanta area. Herman is also the founding partner and the director of planning and urban design at SHAPE.
- David Adjaye: Constructed Narratives by Peter Allison
- David Adjaye: Form Heft Material by Okwui Enwezor and Zoe Ryan, in collaboration with Peter Allison
- Building Art - The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger
- A Promised Land by President Barack Obama
- Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell
- Six Types of Leaders, Part 2 by Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
- Citizen Architect, Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
- Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly
- 2020 Innovation Conference
October-November 2020 | Justin Garrett Moore
Justin Garrett Moore is a transdisciplinary designer and urbanist and serves as the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission. This week, Justin presented the inaugural lecture for the School's new TSW Lecture on Urban Design.
- BlackSpace Manifesto
- In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism, Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff with Carrie Eastman and Ashley Simone (eds.)
- Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It, Mindy Thompson Fullilove
- Black Imagination Podcast, Ep. 2., Dario Calmese with Dr. Mabel O. Wison: https://open.spotify.com/episode/173t68Co1jdID2xWEhNRFA
- Somi's The Gentry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUm9bB9QMjM
- Oddisee's Gentrification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f4WzggVK74
September 2020 | Kaye Husbands Fealing
Kaye Husbands Fealing is Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. She specializes in science and innovation policy, the public value of research expenditures related to food safety, and the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM fields and workforce.
- Gutiérrez y Muhs, G., Niemann, Y. F., González, C. G., & Harris, A. P. (2012). Presumed incompetent: The intersections of race and class for women in academia. Utah State University Press.
- Chadwick Boseman played icons—and then became one.
Gwen Ifill is an American journalist, television newscaster, and author. Kaye wrote, “In addition to the clear lessons still to be learned from this dialogue, Gwen holds a special place in my heart. She was one of my first cousins (her mom and my dad were sister and brother). Gone too soon, but her powerful journalistic accomplishments remain.”
Michele Norris' interview with Sherrilyn Ifill (Gwen’s cousin from the other side of her family) on “What is the role of the arts and humanities—and of individuals—in combatting structural racism and promoting diversity as a value unto itself?”
- Ferguson. This was a pivotal moment in U.S. history, chronicled by Gwen Ifill and the hundreds of participants in the PBS Newshour event on September 24, 2014.
- One of Gwen’s dear friends was Michele Norris. Michele initiated The Race Card Project in 2010. Here is the link to some of those stories that continue to be chronicled by Michele and her team, https://theracecardproject.com/.
August 2020 | Isra Hassan
You may know Isra Hassan from the Digital Building Lab, but we are excited to welcome Isra to our staff here in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture! Isra is currently pursuing a Master of Public Policy at Georgia State University.
NPR's 'Fresh Air' Remembers Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis AND (NEW) Black Gals Livin' podcast, episode 89, We Hope This Isn't a Trend.
John Lewis: Good Trouble, directed by Dawn Porter AND (NEW) Setting the Table for Racial Equity by Ariel Fristoe
July 2020 | Nitra Wisdom
Nitra Wisdom is an academic advisor for the Georgia Tech School of Architecture and the staff advisor for the Georgia Tech chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students.
Bryan C. Lee on Design Justice and Architecture’s Role in Systemic Racism: https://www.archdaily.com/942250/bryan-c-lee-on-design-justice-and-architectures-role-in-systemic-racism
- Anjaly Nath Upadhyay, M.A. on Radical Unlearning: https://forthewild.world/listen/anjali-nath-upadhyay-on-radical-unlearning-190
- Looking for more? Nitra also recommends https://soundcloud.com/architectmag/james-garrett-jr-hopes-george-floyd-is-the-final-wake-up-call-architects-need)
- Originality and Invention, a conversation with artist Carrie Mae Weems and architect David Adjaye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tws9uwnCpR8
- “When I Get Home” (Director’s Cut) by Solange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q55AVeXzqeE
June 2020 | Mario Gooden
We are pleased to announce that Mario Gooden will join us as the 2021 Portman Prize Studio Critic. Mario is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia GSAPP and Principal at Huff + Gooden Architects
"Changing the Subject: Race and Public Space", Mabel Wilson, the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, and the Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University in conversation with Julian Rose, Architecture Editor of Artforum International, Summer 2017
Resmaa Menakem “Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence” On Being podcast June 4, 2020
I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck, 2016) — available at Amazon Prime, YouTube, GooglePlay, iTunes
June 2020 | Scott Marble
Scott Marble, FAIA, is Professor and William H. Harrison Chair of the School of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology and a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks Architects in New York.
Message from the Chair, June 8, 2020: The racist violence and injustices against Black people must stop. As we all continue to process and protest the latest horror in a long history of institutionalized violence against BIPOC, we must also consider ways to make lasting organizational changes in our communities. The SoA leadership, in collaboration with NOMAS GT, AIAS GT, EQiA GT, and ECO GT, is in the initial stages of developing an action plan for the School, and we would like for you to be a part of developing that plan.
Read. Listen. Watch. Discuss. is just one step the School of Architecture is taking to connect and continue to build a more unified community and to learn more about the importance of empathy and mutual respect. Read our Commitment to Antiracism.
How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, Founding Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University in Washington, DC
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Nation's Divide, Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor & Chair of African American Studies, Emory University
Just Mercy, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton