This Black History Month, dD+P celebrates the contributions of Black architects and designers to our industry.

Below are resources, books, and podcasts that highlight the work and scholarship of Black design professionals:

Resources

• Beyond the Built Environment
• Black Architects Archive
• Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative – Anti-Racism and Global Architectural History
• National Organization of Minority Architects
• Places Journal
• POC Arch
• Race, Space & Architecture
• The Black Artists + Designers Guild
• The Directory of African American Architects
• Society of Architectural Historians Special Booklist: Race and Diversity

Books (Black-Owned Bookstores in NYC)

• African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 by Dreck Spurlock Wilson
• An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design by Terresa Moses & Omari Souza
• Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance by Darell Wayne Fields
• Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community by Paul Wellington
• Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity by Mario Gooden
• Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design by Charlene Prempeh
• Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America by Charles L. Davis II
• The Aesthetics of Equity by Craig L. Wilkins
• The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection by Lesley-Ann Noel, Kelly Walters, & Anne H. Berry
• The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race by Adrienne Brown
• White Papers, Black Marks: Architecture, Race, Culture by Lesley Naa Norle Lokko
• Who Made My Stuff by Aisha Densmore-Bey

Podcasts

• Architecture is Political
• Design Unmuted
• Practice Disrupted – Practice of Architecture

Sources: POC Arch, Pratt Institute Libraries, The University of Minnesota