It can’t see or touch, but it’s everywhere
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Under the white dominated education system, these schools specially set up in African American communities and public schools which only provide basic quality and skills education are often inferior to private schools where white children study in terms of teaching facilities, teachers and curriculum arrangement
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In the big cities where all kinds of architectural symbols compete, the architectural language and style belonging to black people can hardly be found
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Since his graduation in 1993, he started his career as a black architect in the “white dominated” western architecture
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Throughout the history of modern and contemporary architecture, you can hardly see a black architect who can be named, let alone a black architect who can win the Pritzker Prize
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With the National Museum of African American history and culture, it has stepped into the peak of its career and has been selected into the time magazine’s annual global influence 100 people list
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The original article of design week (ID: iedaycn) has been authorized by Xiao Qiling
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Previous Pritzker Prize winners pritzkerprize.com Behind these seemingly “accidental” phenomena, there are deeper “inevitable” roots
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01 for a long time, there have been few “unofficial” architects who became a monk and self-taught with their own talents, such as Corbusier and Tadao Ando
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02 the lack of black architectural language if we say that the poor educational soil caused by racial discrimination is the root of the difficult background of black architects, then the lack of black architectural language and style is another important reason
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After aesthetic domestication, only reinforced concrete and glass buildings are left
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This explains why in recent ten years, the proportion of black students majoring in architecture in many universities is less than 5%, and there is only one black student in a class; most of the black images are always low-quality and idle
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Second, for the same position and job, the monthly salary of black people is nearly 25% lower than that of white people
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And to go to university, the first thing we have to face is the word money
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Even high-quality resumes with black names have less call back than low-quality resumes with white names
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In Chicago’s Chinatown, therefore, a specific architectural language can impose / shape a specific race / identity, so as to gain a group’s identity and enlarge its influence
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In my opinion, it is hypocritical to strive for equality in the political and academic circles rather than in the overall architectural environment.
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Once a black architect can not find a job and obtain the necessary social practice experience, he will not be qualified to be an are, and he will not be able to become a certified architect to pick up projects and open an office, let alone become a master architect
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The lack of architectural language brings about not only the lack of black traditional architectural style, but also the lack of black group identity, which eventually leads to the convergence with the white world and the cultural integration
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In the “white dominated” western architecture, it is not easy for a black architect to achieve such success
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In the narrow sense, architectural language is the relationship among the generative structure, logic and form of architecture, but in the broad sense, it has the degree of identification and cultural characteristics similar to language
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Perhaps only David ajaye, born as the son of a diplomat, can have enough ability and courage to break a new ground in the white dominated construction industry under a lot of pressure
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Because companies generally believe that white employees are more competent than black employees
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This is the reflection and exploration after modernism swept the world, and it is also a scene that the architectural academic authority represented by the Pritzker Prize is happy to see
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After graduating from college and entering the workplace, black people had to face white dominated discrimination in the construction workplace
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But why emphasize that he is black? Because in the so-called “white dominated” western architecture, it is not easy, even rare, for a black architect to achieve such success
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British Tanzanian black architect David ajaya was awarded the British Empire Medal and knighthood before that
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White architects also have higher promotion opportunities than black architects
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According to a survey by j-pal in the United States, when the same resume is randomly assigned, employers will decide whether to call back according to whether the name on the resume looks black or white
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As a result, the gap between the black group and the white group is further widened, resulting in an insurmountable class gap and the rich getting richer The vicious circle of the poor getting poorer
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In the United States, where the modern architectural education system is the most complete, there is a saying: as we all know, architecture is the occupation of the rich
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Most architects still have to be admitted to the Department of architecture to receive formal education in order to embark on the road of architectural career
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However, hundreds of years of colonization, enslavement, deprivation of property and housing ownership, and isolation and control of housing streets in the black community have made the black people lose their right and ability to inherit their own architectural language prematurely, so that the thought of “black aesthetics” and “black culture” is street rap, graffiti and dance
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Every architect who regards himself as a native is trying to create a specific architectural language belonging to his own nation and hometown
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According to statistics, in a better university in the United States, the cost of an undergraduate degree in architecture may be as high as $50000 a year, while the cost of a master’s degree is $60000 a year
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If △ is written into the constitution, will discrimination disappear? This is the typical American style of racial discrimination: the four words of racial discrimination will never be mentioned (because it is illegal to say it directly), but written in the underlying rules of society
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The black-and-white apartheid system in the United States before the 1960s once prohibited black people from receiving education
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Its projects are all over the world and have won numerous reputations
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A middle-class Black family’s income is often only half of that of the same white family: △ compared with the annual income of black and white families, the tuition fees of Architecture Department in some American universities are expensive, so that some black families can’t afford their children to go to college at all, so they can only choose to let their children live in African American communities High school or public school
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First, it’s harder for blacks to find jobs than for whites
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Before graduation, many college students are burdened with tuition loans of more than 100000 dollars
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As a minority group, black people generally belong to the low-income group
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Once you step into that field, you can only passively accept the unfair treatment due to skin color, and have nothing to do
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Previously, the famous black architect David Adjaye won the Royal gold medal awarded by the Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) in 2021 in recognition of “individuals or groups that have a direct or indirect significant impact on the development of architecture”
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Why does DeMar Matthews emphasize the concept of “architectural language” when contextualism prevails? Is it to form a set of metaphysical things to justify one’s own design? Of course not
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David ajaye deserves the title of outstanding architect
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Once so, the exquisite and mysterious images and symbols that gave birth to the old African continent no longer have special significance
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As a result, resumes with seemingly white names received 50% more calls back than those with black names
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The reason why David ajaye’s National Museum of African American history and culture has won the public recognition is inseparable from his understanding of African traditional art image (totem), music and language, as well as his influence on urban life
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