Black Women in the Built Environment

Ten Voices from Chicago
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-17041-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Minorities in Architecture

This book showcases the women of the Black Diaspora and quantifies their impact in reshaping the built environment in the 21st century. The collection includes experiences from black female architects, urban planners, interior architects, interior designers to demonstrate how they have, and still are, repaving the landscape for future generations.

The book focuses specifically on ten diasporic women connected to Chicago, which has long been a laboratory for architectural innovation and experimentation. The women span generations and have gained prominence for their contributions, not only physically shaping the built environment, but authoring a changed perspective of ‘who’ are the contributors. Each woman in her own way has assisted in establishing a path for Black Diasporic Women to build careers in architecture and tangential professions. The book’s content is a compilation of ten stories, which each woman narrating her memories and experiences throughout her career journey accompanied by images of selected projects. The book focuses on the women’s stories and their journey to becoming a model for success. However, critical to the theme is understanding that belonging to the same African Diasporic community does not inherently speak to the same black experience and journey.

This book will both inform and inspire future generations of Black Diasporic Women and demonstrate the role they can play in reshaping the built environment’s landscape. It will be of interest to academics and students of the built environment, as well as gender studies, and race and ethnicity studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oats, Joclyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1. May Bird-Murphy Chapter 2. Kimberly Dowdell Chapter 3. Dina Griffin Chapter 4. Clemenstien Love Chapter 5. Anne Melinda Palmore Chapter 6. Denise rush Chapter 7. Sharon Samuels Chapter 8. Chris-Annmarie Spencer Chapter 9. Danielle Tillman Chapter 10. RaMona Westbrook Chapter 11. A Global Perspective: Black Women Shaping the Built Environment Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Joclyn Oats is an independent teacher, lecturer, moderator, researcher, illustrator on architecture and design topics. Joclyn is a retired tenured faculty member of the Design Department at Columbia College Chicago, where she taught for thirty plus years. Professionally she has practiced architecture and interior design and served the College in an administrative capacity as coordinator and director for the BFA, Interior Architecture, MFA, Architectural Studies and the MFA, Interior Architecture Programs for over a decade.