Making an Impact Through Architecture and Activism (Whitney M. Young Jr. 2021 Award Recipient Pascale Sablan, FAIA)
2021-HAWYA21
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Description
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, is an outspoken champion of women and diverse design professionals. As the 315th Black woman architect to receive licensure in the US, Sablan has embraced the role of activist architect to broaden social awareness of the built environment and involve new people across diverse communities—in the design process.
In this session, Sablan shares what drew her to a career in architecture, how she pursued the dual paths of architecture and activism, and the ways her advocacy has impacted the industry—including her winning the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award, which honors an architect or organization that embodies social responsibility and actively addresses a relevant issue in the industry.
Course expires 12/4/2024
Learning Objectives
Explore how Sablan has carved out a career that incorporates both activism and architecture—and how she uses design to implement change and empower communities.
Identify the ways Sablan has expanded opportunities in architecture for women and people of color by addressing disparities and providing a platform to support multiple states of the architecture pipeline.
See how Sablan supported her family’s homeland of Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake by designing a new school campus for AMHE, leading construction workshops for local contractors, and helping rebuild elementary schools.
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, is the Founder and Executive Director of Beyond the Built Environment, LLC, positioned to uniquely address the inequitable disparities in architecture by providing a holistic platform aimed to support numerous stages of the architecture pipeline.
To impact the culture, Beyond the Built Environment, elevates the identities and contributions of women and diverse designers through exhibitions, curated lectures, and documentaries that testify to the provided value of their built work and its spatial impact. Pascale curated SAY IT LOUD exhibitions at the AIA New York, in Center for Architecture Gallery, SXSW Conference 2019, A'19, and NOMA 2018 Unbounded conference which was all paired with relevant programming speaking to the mission. The SAY IT LOUD - United Nations Visitors Centre, exhibition created a tremendous opportunity for exposure and echoing the call to action to the leaders of our world. After her speech at the opening of our exhibition, the United Nations generously offered to transform this exhibition into posters, translated into 8 languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and Kiswahili), and distributed to their information centers worldwide. SAY IT LOUD - United Nations exhibit has been displayed in Bujumbura, Geneva, Harare, Lagos, Lome, Nairobi, New Delhi, Minsk, and Yaounde.
She has been recognized for her contributions to the industry with several awards, including the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award for her advocacy efforts and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows, the youngest African American to receive that honor. She was featured in the Council of Tall Building & Urban Habitat Research Paper, in the same company as Jeanne Gang and Zaha Hadid.
To engage the culture Pascale has given lectures at Institutions, such as the National Museum of African American Heritage & Culture and the United Nations Visitor Centre. She lectured and engaged students with lectures at Universities and Colleges all over the US; Columbia University, Georgia Technical College, Harvard University, Tuskegee University, Pratt Institute, Parsons | The New School, Madison Area Technical College, and California Polytechnic State University.
Pascale is the AIA New York Board of Directors and NOMA National Historian. In 2020 Pascale was voted President-Elect of the National Organization of Minority Architects, the 5th woman to hold this position of leadership in the organization's 50-year legacy.
Mrs. Sablan holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University.