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Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession

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Description for Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession Paperback. A powerful statement about the repercussions of discrimination and the benefits of diversity in architecture Num Pages: 272 pages, 14. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 534. Weight in Grams: 340.

A powerful statement about the repercussions of discrimination and the benefits of diversity in architecture

Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, Designing for Diversity reveals a profession rife with gender and racial discrimination and examines the aspects of architectural practice that hinder or support the full participation of women and persons of color.
Drawing on interviews and surveys of hundreds of architects, Kathryn H. Anthony outlines some of the forms of discrimination that recur most frequently in architecture: being offered added responsibility without a commensurate rise in position, salary, or credit; ... Read more

Anthony discusses the profession's attitude toward flexible schedules, part-time contracts, and the demands of family and identifies strategies that have helped underrepresented individuals advance in the profession, especially establishing a strong relationship with a mentor. She also observes a strong tendency for underrepresented architects to leave mainstream practice, either establishing their own firms, going into government or corporate work, or abandoning the field altogether.

Given the traditional mismatch between diverse consumers and predominantly white male producers of the built environment, plus the shifting population balance toward communities of color, Anthony contends that the architectural profession staves off true diversity at its own peril. Designing for Diversity argues convincingly that improving the climate for nontraditional architects will do much to strengthen architecture as a profession. Practicing architects, managers of firms, and educators will learn how to create conditions more welcoming to a diversity of users as well as designers of the built environment.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
339g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073953
SKU
V9780252073953
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About Kathryn H. Anthony
Kathryn H. Anthony is ACSA Distinguished Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Design Juries on Trial: The Renaissance of the Design Studio along with Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places.  She is a winner of the ... Read more

Reviews for Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession
"Ground-breaking. . . . Deserves a place on the bookshelves, bedsides and desks of all educators, managers, [and] design principals. . . . Anthony is an unrepentant idealist, calling for nothing short of a 'transformation' of the culture of architecture; what she offers her readers are the tools by which . . . to begin the process."
Alice T. Friedman, Women's ... Read more

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