We’re excited to announce the 2021 recipients for four scholarship programs—the Diversity Advancement Scholarship, Payette Sho-Ping Chin Memorial Academic Scholarship, a/e ProNet David W. Lakamp AIA Scholarship, Yann Weymouth Graduate Scholarship. These scholarships support future leaders of the profession in equity, diversity, and sustainability.
Melissa Smith, a 2020-2021 AF/McAslan Fellow and Masters of Architecture graduate from the University of Kansas, shares reflections on her architecture studies, her fellowship, and what’s next as she starts her career.
The CODAawards program honors the individuals and teams whose collective imaginations create the public and private spaces that inspire us every day. This year’s exhibit celebrating projects that integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces is on view virtually.
WASHINGTON– The Sherwin-Williams Company has made a permanent endowment to the Architects Foundation to support a Diversity Advancement Scholarship. Through their $150,000 gift, Sherwin-Williams will support a minority architecture student’s career path by funding their college experience with $20,000, to be distributed evenly over the course of up to five years. “At Sherwin-Williams we are … Continue reading Sherwin-Williams endows Diversity Advancement Scholarship
Source: Digital Media Solutions This year, Black History Month is hitting a little differently for a lot of people, and brands are responding accordingly. After a year of COVID-19, in which Black and Brown people were disproportionately impacted, and the racial justice uprisings in the summer of 2020, the expectation from consumers is that brands and retailers will take … Continue reading Five strategic partnerships making an impact in 2021