by Katherine Williams | Oct 15, 2012 | African American Architects, Community Design, Women architects
Woman at party says “I have seen your work.” I think jokingly “am I famous? are the paparazzi hunting me down?” At that party [tonight 9/24/2010] a few years ago, I was reminded of how small the circle of black women architects is. I was...
by Katherine Williams | Oct 1, 2012 | African American Architects, Women architects
Where has the time gone? Almost ten years ago, my essay “Where Are the Architects That Look Like Me?” was published. At that time there were only 143 licensed African American women architects. I didn’t think it was a ground breaking essay and I am sure...
by Katherine Williams | Sep 26, 2012 | African American Architects, Community Design, Women architects
Last week in a Richmond newspaper, Style Weekly, an article was written about developers building apartments with no windows. I was shocked as I was reading that this is now becoming practice in the city. When the number of units in a building that is needed to make...
by Katherine Williams | Aug 21, 2012 | African American Architects, Women architects
In July NCARB* released a new publication, NCARB By The Numbers, which “offers an inside look at the data behind the architectural profession.” For anyone interested in the state of the profession, it provides insight on who is getting licensed, why people...
by Katherine Williams | Feb 7, 2012 | AAArchs Statistics, African American Architects, Women architects
Photo by thefixer Salon.com recently wrote about the “meltdown” of the architecture profession. This article is a the latest in a series of articles that basically saying how hard it is to make a living in the professions. Yes movies portray it as...
by Katherine Williams | Oct 24, 2011 | African American Architects, Women architects
The following is a piece of a thread of Twitter chat I participated in a month ago. @skibison: @NOMArchitects A2: Do you still really need to blaze ure own path? Have there not been enough examples to follow? #NOMAchat August 31, 2011, 12:43 am @MelissaRDaniel: I wish...
