Architect; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona professor of architecture; and director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
The interviews in the series African American Architects of Los Angeles document the work of selected African American architects who have enhanced the built environment, principally in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Influenced by earlier pioneers such as Paul R. Williams, these individuals ...
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African American architect who designed schools and public buildings, including Carson City Hall and Community Center, Van Nuys State Office Building, and LAX Parking Structures 1, 3, and 4. Championed minorities in the architectural profession, creating mentorship programs for schools in the Los...
The Women Architects in Southern California series documents the impacts made by women in architecture on the built environment of Southern California from the nineteen fifties and on. Overcoming gender bias in a male-dominated profession, the selected women represent a cohort of architects, educ...
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Founder of one of the first all-woman-owned architecture practices in California in the 1980s, Siegel Diamond Sklarek. Instrumental in the founding of the city of West Hollywood