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aiarchitect | volume 14 the news of america’s community of architects October 5, 2007
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Patrons and Patronage
This month’s column raises concerns of patronage. Who are and who should be the black architect’s patrons, how open is access to the white patron establishment, what progress has occurred and what still remains to be done? Read opinions by black practitioners from various parts of the nation along with comments by a major patron.
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Randy Byers, AIA, LEED-AP, is a native of Cheyenne, Wyo., and an AIA Education Practitioners’ Network (EPN) committee representative for the AIA white paper for the 2008 NAAB Accreditation Review Conference (ARC).
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Twisted: African-American Architects and Signature Commissions
Craig Wilkins, PhD, University of Michigan College of Architecture + Urban Planning, dispels myths on three of the most frequently provided and commonly accepted reasons for the dearth of African-American architects invited to compete for high profile projects: existence, experience, and aesthetics.
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