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This website was created as part of the first ACSA Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture.
The website went online in the Spring of 2024, initiated by Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia / WAI Architecture Think Tank, co-recipients of the fellowship, with the intent that the page is updated with scholarship, resources, and platforms that center questions and initiatives of social and ecological justice in architecture and related fields.
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Journal of Architectural Education (JAE)
Technology + Design (TAD)
JAE Fellows
Statements and Letters
ACSA Traveling Lecture Series
Platforms
Bibliographic Resources
Where Are My People? Series
From Land Grab to LandBack Publications
ACSA Social Justice Shift
Read the ACSA Social Justice Shift to find out more about ACSA’s shift to equity and justice.
Infidelities
Volume 78
Issue 1
Spring 2024
Volume 78
Issue 1
Spring 2024
Infidelities
Aya Musmar, Nishat Awan, and Menna Agha
Audre Lorde & The Allama on the Way
Mustafa Faruki; theLab-lab
In Conversation with Yara Sharif
Aya Musmar
Umm Kamel’s Affair How Infidelity Liberated the Night Sky in Jabal ‘Amil
Mohamad Nahleh
Roaming Therapeutic and Design Practices for Indigenous Healing
Janet McGaw, Alasdair Vance, Uncle Herb Patten, and Saran Kim
To Know No Nation Will Be Home Until One Does
Aya Musmar, Nishat Awan, Menna Agha, and Ozayr Saloojee
Kinship
Shahzia Sikander
Aya Musmar, Nishat Awan, and Menna Agha
Audre Lorde & The Allama on the Way
Mustafa Faruki; theLab-lab
In Conversation with Yara Sharif
Aya Musmar
Umm Kamel’s Affair How Infidelity Liberated the Night Sky in Jabal ‘Amil
Mohamad Nahleh
Roaming Therapeutic and Design Practices for Indigenous Healing
Janet McGaw, Alasdair Vance, Uncle Herb Patten, and Saran Kim
To Know No Nation Will Be Home Until One Does
Aya Musmar, Nishat Awan, Menna Agha, and Ozayr Saloojee
Kinship
Shahzia Sikander
Deserts
Volume 77
Issue 2
Fall 2023
Volume 77
Issue 2
Fall 2023
Deserts
Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, Stephen Mueller
Visualizing the Desert
Karl S. Twitchell and the
Environmental Imaginaries of the
Saudi Arabian Desert, 1936–48
Dalal Musaed Alsayer
The Desert Has Everything
Episodes in Praise of Dryness
Faysal Tabbarah
Tactical Landscapes
Abstractions and Power Practices
Yousef Awaad Hussein, Asaiel Al Saeed, Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Aseel AlYaqoub
Desert Dreams and Techno-Utopian Nightmares: The Complex History of California City and the Colonial Gaze Toward the Desert
Ezgi İşbilen
In Conversation with
Brahim El Guabli
Interview by Ersela Kripa,
Francesco Marullo, and
Stephen Mueller
Conquest(s) of the Desert
Dante Furioso
(Open Access) / (PDF)
Food Desert: Feeding the Regional Economic Imaginary
Patty Heyda
In Conversation with
Menna Agha
Interview by Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, and Stephen Mueller
Repertoire as Infrastructure for Architectural
Historiographical Crafts in the Sahrawi
Refugee Camps
Julien Lafontaine Carboni
Desert Depths
Multivalent Architectural Narratives of Belonging in the Negev/Naqab Desert
Piper Bernbaum and Zach Colbert
Dry Matters
Speculations for an Arid Future
Danika Cooper
In Conversation with
Gonzalo Pimentel
Interview by Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, and Stephen Mueller
Displacements of Mohammed
Abdalah During His Life
Transformations of Western Sahara
after the Spanish Colony
Alvaro Velasco Perez
Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, Stephen Mueller
Visualizing the Desert
Karl S. Twitchell and the
Environmental Imaginaries of the
Saudi Arabian Desert, 1936–48
Dalal Musaed Alsayer
The Desert Has Everything
Episodes in Praise of Dryness
Faysal Tabbarah
Tactical Landscapes
Abstractions and Power Practices
Yousef Awaad Hussein, Asaiel Al Saeed, Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Aseel AlYaqoub
Desert Dreams and Techno-Utopian Nightmares: The Complex History of California City and the Colonial Gaze Toward the Desert
Ezgi İşbilen
In Conversation with
Brahim El Guabli
Interview by Ersela Kripa,
Francesco Marullo, and
Stephen Mueller
Conquest(s) of the Desert
Dante Furioso
(Open Access) / (PDF)
Food Desert: Feeding the Regional Economic Imaginary
Patty Heyda
In Conversation with
Menna Agha
Interview by Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, and Stephen Mueller
Repertoire as Infrastructure for Architectural
Historiographical Crafts in the Sahrawi
Refugee Camps
Julien Lafontaine Carboni
Desert Depths
Multivalent Architectural Narratives of Belonging in the Negev/Naqab Desert
Piper Bernbaum and Zach Colbert
Dry Matters
Speculations for an Arid Future
Danika Cooper
In Conversation with
Gonzalo Pimentel
Interview by Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, and Stephen Mueller
Displacements of Mohammed
Abdalah During His Life
Transformations of Western Sahara
after the Spanish Colony
Alvaro Velasco Perez
Reparations!
Volume 77
Issue 1
Spring 2023
Volume 77
Issue 1
Spring 2023
Reparations! (Reparations! JAE Website)
V. Mitch McEwen, Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski
(PDF)
Holding the Future: In Conversation with Rasheedah Phillips
V. Mitch McEwen & Cruz Garcia
(PDF)
“Soul and T-Square”: An Architectural Reparations for Watts
Rebecca Choi
(PDF)
Conservation as Reparations: The Refuting Power of the Julius Rosenwald Schools
Gorham Bird
On Reparations and the Possibility of Other Systems: In Conversation with Mabel O. Wilson
Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia
Toward Reparative Design Pedagogies: Futuring Green Infrastructures with Youth in the Black Belt South
Lily Song
Spatializing Reparations: Mapping Reparative Futures
Danika Cooper
Economies and Circuits of Repair: On Reparative Justice Within/Beyond the State - In Conversation with Jovan Scott Lewis
Desirée Valadares
Bad Bodies: Unearthing Belonging and Dispossession of Muslim Diaspora in the US Burial Landscape
Samiha Meem
Lessons from the Black Indigenous Atlantic: Land and Collective Repair (Open Access)
Thabisile Griffin
How to Establish Value: In Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
V. Mitch McEwen & Cruz Garcia
Seeking Redress: A History of Little Tokyo’s San Pedro Firm Building
(Open Access)
Nate Imai & Matthew Okazaki
Fugitive Practice
Jerome W. Haferd & Curry J. Hackett
To Enter the Crater: In Conversation with Sean Connelly
Cruz Garcia
Riotous Repertoire
Jovan Scott Lewis
Notes Toward a Critical Race Practice of Preservation
Marisa Angell Brown
Trouble with the Word ‘Repair’: In Conversation with Dream The Combine
V. Mitch McEwen & Cruz Garcia
Measuring What Matters: The True Cost of St. Louis’s New National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Linda C. Samuels & Bomin Kim
When You are Critical Mass: In Conversation with Tina Campt
V. Mitch McEwen
Guerrilla Maneuvers in Architectural Preservation
Gabriel Cira & Kris Manjapr
Review
At the End of the Tunnel: Bad Bunny’s Vid(e)ocumentary Sheds Light (and Music) into Boricuas’ Struggle against Dispossession
Juan Carlos Quiñones
REVIEW “EL APAGÓN/AQUÍ VIVE GENTE” BAD BUNNY
V. Mitch McEwen, Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski
(PDF)
Holding the Future: In Conversation with Rasheedah Phillips
V. Mitch McEwen & Cruz Garcia
(PDF)
“Soul and T-Square”: An Architectural Reparations for Watts
Rebecca Choi
(PDF)
Conservation as Reparations: The Refuting Power of the Julius Rosenwald Schools
Gorham Bird
On Reparations and the Possibility of Other Systems: In Conversation with Mabel O. Wilson
Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia
Toward Reparative Design Pedagogies: Futuring Green Infrastructures with Youth in the Black Belt South
Lily Song
Spatializing Reparations: Mapping Reparative Futures
Danika Cooper
Economies and Circuits of Repair: On Reparative Justice Within/Beyond the State - In Conversation with Jovan Scott Lewis
Desirée Valadares
Bad Bodies: Unearthing Belonging and Dispossession of Muslim Diaspora in the US Burial Landscape
Samiha Meem
Lessons from the Black Indigenous Atlantic: Land and Collective Repair (Open Access)
Thabisile Griffin
How to Establish Value: In Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
V. Mitch McEwen & Cruz Garcia
Seeking Redress: A History of Little Tokyo’s San Pedro Firm Building
(Open Access)
Nate Imai & Matthew Okazaki
Fugitive Practice
Jerome W. Haferd & Curry J. Hackett
To Enter the Crater: In Conversation with Sean Connelly
Cruz Garcia
Riotous Repertoire
Jovan Scott Lewis
Notes Toward a Critical Race Practice of Preservation
Marisa Angell Brown
Trouble with the Word ‘Repair’: In Conversation with Dream The Combine
V. Mitch McEwen & Cruz Garcia
Measuring What Matters: The True Cost of St. Louis’s New National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Linda C. Samuels & Bomin Kim
When You are Critical Mass: In Conversation with Tina Campt
V. Mitch McEwen
Guerrilla Maneuvers in Architectural Preservation
Gabriel Cira & Kris Manjapr
Review
At the End of the Tunnel: Bad Bunny’s Vid(e)ocumentary Sheds Light (and Music) into Boricuas’ Struggle against Dispossession
Juan Carlos Quiñones
REVIEW “EL APAGÓN/AQUÍ VIVE GENTE” BAD BUNNY
Pedagogies of the Broken World
Volume 76
Issue 2
Fall 2022
Volume 76
Issue 2
Fall 2022
Pedagogies for a Broken World
Jay Cephas, Igor Marjanovic, & Ana Miljački
Disabled Practices for the Architectures of the Countercollapse
Ignacio G. Galán
Broken Down
David Gissen
Fractures
Mpho Matsipa
Broken Sources (gatekhili tsqaroebi)
Sarah Cowles
Re-Producing the Status Quo
Peggy Deamer
Framing Survival: Questions of Safe Space in Design Pedagogies
Kush Patel in collaboration with Johnson Jament, Merin Mathew
Protest as Pedagogy
Bradford C. Grant
Transforming Minds
Sharon Egretta Sutton
De-Colonizing Indigenous Housing
Chris Cornelius
Critical Race Theory as Architectural Pedagogy
Carla Jackson Bell
Jay Cephas, Igor Marjanovic, & Ana Miljački
Disabled Practices for the Architectures of the Countercollapse
Ignacio G. Galán
Broken Down
David Gissen
Fractures
Mpho Matsipa
Broken Sources (gatekhili tsqaroebi)
Sarah Cowles
Re-Producing the Status Quo
Peggy Deamer
Framing Survival: Questions of Safe Space in Design Pedagogies
Kush Patel in collaboration with Johnson Jament, Merin Mathew
Protest as Pedagogy
Bradford C. Grant
Transforming Minds
Sharon Egretta Sutton
De-Colonizing Indigenous Housing
Chris Cornelius
Critical Race Theory as Architectural Pedagogy
Carla Jackson Bell
Health
Volume 76
Issue 1
Spring 2022
Volume 76
Issue 1
Spring 2022
A ‘Holding Place’: An
Indigenous Typology to Mediate Hospital Care
Janet McGaw, Alasdair Vance, Uncle Herb Patten
Equity & Dignity by Design: Co-creating Guidelines with Planned Parenthood Affiliate Health Centers
Deborah Richards & Angela M. Person
Janet McGaw, Alasdair Vance, Uncle Herb Patten
Equity & Dignity by Design: Co-creating Guidelines with Planned Parenthood Affiliate Health Centers
Deborah Richards & Angela M. Person
Building Stories
Volume 75
Issue 2
Fall 2021
Volume 75
Issue 2
Fall 2021
An “Othered” Land Reclamation:
Decolonization in Anticipation of Another Great Flood
Arthur Leung
Frames and Fictions: Designing a Green New Deal Studio Sequence
Billy Fleming
Elephant in the Room
Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy
Arthur Leung
Frames and Fictions: Designing a Green New Deal Studio Sequence
Billy Fleming
Elephant in the Room
Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy
Built
Volume 75
Issue 1
Spring 2021
Volume 75
Issue 1
Spring 2021
Building Agnotology
Kiel Moe
Interview with Chris Cornelius of studio:indigenous
Carolina Dayer, Ivan Rupnik, Jacob Mans
Architectural Programming and Race in the CRS Archive
Andrew R. Tripp
Kiel Moe
Interview with Chris Cornelius of studio:indigenous
Carolina Dayer, Ivan Rupnik, Jacob Mans
Architectural Programming and Race in the CRS Archive
Andrew R. Tripp
Othering
Volume 74
Issue 2
October 2020
Volume 74
Issue 2
October 2020
Othering
Tanya Southcott & David Theodore
Call to Action: ArchiteXX, Now What?!, and Creating New Futures
Lori Brown, Sarah Rafson, Andrea J. Merrett & Roberta Washington
Call to Action: A (Little) Manifesto for Doing Dis/Ability Differently in Architecture
Jos Boys
Constructing Health: Representations of Health and Housing in Charlottesville’s Urban Renewals
Kevan J. Klosterwill, Alissa Ujie Diamond, Barbara Brown Wilson & Jeana Ripple
Decolonizing Prisons
Cathi Ho Schar, Nicole Biewenga & Mark Lombawa
Shrouded in Dust: The Unseen Labor of African American Cement Workers
Vyta Baselice
“Nos están matando”: (We Are Being Killed)
Catalina Mejía Moreno
Travels Across Othered Landscapes: Teaching an Architectural History of Difference
Sharóne L. Tomer
Praxxis: Always Personal, Always Political, Always Pedagogical
Helen Aston, Emily Crompton, Sarah Renshaw & Kathryn Timmins
Between Borders and Bodies: Revealing the Architectures of Immigration Detention
Ella den Elzen
Interview with Susan Stryker
Tanya Southcott & David Theodore
Tanya Southcott & David Theodore
Call to Action: ArchiteXX, Now What?!, and Creating New Futures
Lori Brown, Sarah Rafson, Andrea J. Merrett & Roberta Washington
Call to Action: A (Little) Manifesto for Doing Dis/Ability Differently in Architecture
Jos Boys
Constructing Health: Representations of Health and Housing in Charlottesville’s Urban Renewals
Kevan J. Klosterwill, Alissa Ujie Diamond, Barbara Brown Wilson & Jeana Ripple
Decolonizing Prisons
Cathi Ho Schar, Nicole Biewenga & Mark Lombawa
Shrouded in Dust: The Unseen Labor of African American Cement Workers
Vyta Baselice
“Nos están matando”: (We Are Being Killed)
Catalina Mejía Moreno
Travels Across Othered Landscapes: Teaching an Architectural History of Difference
Sharóne L. Tomer
Praxxis: Always Personal, Always Political, Always Pedagogical
Helen Aston, Emily Crompton, Sarah Renshaw & Kathryn Timmins
Between Borders and Bodies: Revealing the Architectures of Immigration Detention
Ella den Elzen
Interview with Susan Stryker
Tanya Southcott & David Theodore