See Meredith TenHoor, “Oppositions” Pidgin 3, Fall 2007.
This was the topic of a 2005 conference at Princeton University, “Discipline Building,” organized by Beatriz Colomina, Annmarie Brennan, Michael Wen-Sen Su, Shundana Yusaf and myself.
This is clear from looking at NCARB’s data on the profession at large; see ➝. See also Lian Chikako Chang, “Where are the Women? Measuring Progress on Gender in Architecture.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture website, October 2014, ➝; Héctor Tarrido-Picart, “Valuing Black Lives Means Changing the Curricula,” The Aggregate website, Volume 2, March, 2015, ➝; and Jonathan Massey, “How can architects build the equitable discipline we deserve?” Architects’ Newspaper, September 20, 2018, ➝.
It is worth noting the funding discrepancies between these two projects; GAHTC has been admirably and importantly supported by funds from the Mellon Foundation. While FAAC is a newer initiative run by much younger scholars, I yearn for the day when foundations support feminist scholarship with this kind of commitment.
See especially the “Race in Modern Architecture” project and forthcoming book edited by Irene Cheng, Charles Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson.
See for instance the articles in the special section of Architectural Theory Review edited by Ana María Leon, and Niko Vicario, “Designing Commodity Cultures,” Architectural Theory Review 21, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 277–279; and the recent work of Ateya Khorakiwala on material circulations. I also see the championing of this form of history to have been a project of Aggregate. In my own teaching, I’ve leaned on Mark Jarzombek’s discussions of agriculture and irrigation, which has helped me to trace long urban histories of biopower; on Adedoyin Teriba’s work on how practices of building established untheorized aesthetic exchanges between Brazil and West Africa and Ayala Levin’s on the connections between West Africa and Israel; on Felicity Scott’s excavations of the geopolitics in avant-garde practices; on Helen Gyger’s work on housing production in Peru; on the analyses of labor that the Who Builds your Architecture? group has done, as well as those of the Architecture Lobby; on Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi’s work on migration; on the writings and discussions in Aggregate’s workshops, and on so many others I do not have room to mention here.
Will Glovinsky, “The Great Global Grad School Novel.” Public Books blog, October 22, 2018, ➝, citing March 2018 statistics from the US Department of Labor.
See Susan Hassler, “STEM Crisis? What About the STS Crisis?” IEEE Spectrum, Sept 21, 2016, ➝.