{"id":82391,"date":"2022-08-21T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82391"},"modified":"2022-08-21T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T17:42:36","slug":"black-architects-are-rare-this-program-plans-to-change-that-berg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/08\/21\/black-architects-are-rare-this-program-plans-to-change-that-berg\/","title":{"rendered":"Black architects are rare. This program plans to change that [Berg]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90780495\/black-architects-are-rare-this-program-plans-to-change-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Black architects are rare. This program plans to change that<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from fastcompany.com by Nate Berg<br \/>\nBlack Architects in the Making exposes students to architecture starting in elementary school.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There should be many more Black architects in the U.S. Based solely on Census figures, about 14% of the U.S. population identifies as Black, but in a profession of more than 122,000 registered architects, the number of Black architects is far from proportional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe would anticipate something in the region of 17,000 architects would identify as Black. In fact, we have less than 2,500,\u201d says Craig Aquart, a principal at the Miami architectural firm, MC Harry Associates. That comes out to just about 2%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This disparity is what led Aquart to help create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bammiami.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Architects in the Making<\/a>\u00a0(BAM), a program aimed at bringing architectural exposure to Black students from elementary school to high school in the Miami region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black architects are rare. This program plans to change that &#8212; from fastcompany.com by Nate Berg Black Architects in the Making exposes students to architecture starting in elementary school. Excerpt: There should be many more Black architects in the U.S. Based solely on Census figures, about 14% of the U.S. population identifies as Black, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[842,390,324,343,419,46,480,293,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-architecture","category-curriculum","category-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-society","category-sociology","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82392,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82391\/revisions\/82392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}