School of Architecture faculty Erica Cochran Hameen, PhD and Bill Bates, FAIA, together with alumni Ernest Bellamy and Chase Kea and nine UDream Alumni, will participate in the SAY IT LOUD Pennsylvania. The exhibit, Representation Matters: Changing the Face of Architecture, hosts its opening reception on Friday 01 November from 6:00-10:00pm at GBBN Architects. The exhibit will run through the month of November and showcases the work of minority architects and designers. The SAY IT LOUD exhibit has traveled to the United Nations offices in New York City and Switzerland, the AIA Center for Architecture, and several other global locations. The event is presented by Beyond the Built Environment.
About Beyond the Built Environment
Beyond the Built Environment uniquely addresses the inequitable disparities in architecture by providing a holistic platform aimed to support numerous stages of the architecture pipeline. We promote agency among diverse audiences and advocate for equity in the built environment through an approach that utilizes a method termed "the triple E, C." The triple E, C method is a strategy to: Engage, Elevate, Educate, and Collaborate. We engage diverse audiences through programming promoting intellectual discourse and exchange to better achieve a just and equitable built environment. We elevate the identities and contributions of minority architects and designers through exhibitions, curated lectures, and documentaries that testify to the provided value of their built work and its spatial impact. We educate the masses through formal and informal learning opportunities that introduce architecture as a bridge to fill the gaps of inequity. We collaborate with community stakeholders and organizations to crowdsource information and amplify opportunities to advocate for equitable and reflectively diverse environments.