Tag: black lives matter

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Why I don’t speak to white architects about race

Black people encounter obstacles in their professional lives of a kind unimagined by their white counterparts. Kunle Barker shares a personal testimony illustrating an insidious problem that blights the construction industry

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Lesley Lokko: A comet of uncommon brightness

Catherine Slessor talks to Lesley Lokko, recipient of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, whose global teaching career has radically changed the conversation around race, identity and architecture

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London Met renames The Cass due to slavery links

London Metropolitan University has renamed its architecture school with immediate effect due to the role which Sir John Cass, a 17th century merchant and politician, had in promoting the slave trade