Beschreibung
Junior Architects traces the pursuit of equity in architecture and design education through historical analysis, critical theory, and comparative case studies from across contemporary US contexts. At a moment when architecture schools are grappling with urgent calls for racial and economic justice amid growing political backlash, this incisive volume asks how early-learning interventions can expand access to the profession and ways it is taught, valued, and practiced. It situates the current crisis in design education within a long arc of exclusion in American higher education, showing how elite institutions, accreditation systems, and resource-intensive pedagogies have reinforced narrow authorship of the built environment. Organized into three partsInstitutions, Instruction, and Practiceand anchored by case studies, the collection moves from examining how universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and alternative programs are redefining recruitment and retention, to investigating pedagogical strategies that shift from gatekeeping to genuine civic empowerment, and finally to exploring how professional pathways might be restructured to prioritize pluralism, reciprocity, and public purpose. Far from a triumphalist account, this is a field report from contested terrain, offering perspectives from both within and alongside institutions. Junior Architects invites to envision a discipline that does not simply diversify its margins, but rethinks its foundations, transforming architecture from a rarefied profession into a shared language for civic life.
Autorenporträt
Suzanne Lettieri ist Architektin, Vermittlerin, und Ko-Leiterin des Architekturbüros JE-LE in Detroit. Sie lehrt zudem als Assistant Professor am Department of Architecture der Cornell University. Anya Sirota ist Architektin und Mitgründerin des Büros Akoaki in Detroit. Sie lehrt als Professorin und ist Senior Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives am Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning der University of Michigan.
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