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N A T I O N A L O R G A N I Z A T I O N O F M I N O R I T Y A R C H I T E C T S | F A L L 2 0 2 0
M A G A Z I N E
CONFRONTING
T HE
DUAL
PA N D E M I C
Project Pipeline teaches and
empowers young people to shape
their communities in their vision.
SFNOMA Project Pipeline celebrates
10 years of design justice. SEE PAGE 24
Breana Palmer working with Pipeline student.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Edgar Garcia
NOMA MAGAZINE, FALL 2020
EDITOR:Steve Lewis
Carla Flagg
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Susan Ackermann
NOMA COMMUNICATIONS: Amber LaCroix
Thank you to contributing authors
NOMA COMMUNICATIONS TEAM AND VOLUNTEERS
Joel Avery, Catherine Hernandez, Tiffany Mayhew,
Courtney Morgan, Admo Ogun, and Triveece Penelton
ON THE COVER
PHOTOGRAPHER: Jenna Lewis
MODEL: Imani Day
4 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letter from the President
6
10 14
Editor’s Page
29
President’s Circle
30
NOMA Board
31 DESIGN FEATURE AIA LARGE FIRM
Jamaica House of Parliament ROUNDTABLE UPDATE
NOMA and NOMAS Chapters
16 18 20
MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTIONS
MASTERING THE 35 WORDS FROM NOMA MEMBERS
VIRTUAL WORKPLACE Black Space LEED for Diversity
22 24 28
2020 NOMA FOUNDATION
FELLOWSHIP INAUGURAL SFNOMA PROJECT PIPELINE THE INCLUSION & DIVERSITY
COHORT 10 Years of Design Justice COMPENDIUM FOR DESIGNERS
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
FALL 2020
Where Do We
Go From Here?
D
D
ear NOMA Family:
I write this message
to you with just over
100 days remaining in
my two-year term as
president. It has truly
been an honor to serve and grow as
a leader during such uncertain times,
while also seeing our membership
double in the process. I cannot thank
you enough for either remaining
committed to NOMA, re-engaging
with us, or joining NOMA for the
first time. I firmly believe that there
is strength in numbers and that our
confront head on. In response to the
murder of George Floyd, NOMA’s
leadership mobilized quickly to
finalize a revamped mission statement
on May 31, 2020:
NOMA’s mission, rooted in a rich
legacy of activism, is to empower
our local chapters and membership
to foster justice and equity in com-
munities of color through outreach,
community advocacy, professional
development and design excellence.
While these words are important,
they are empty without action. This is
One very important issue that
often remains unaddressed is the
mass incarceration that takes place in
the United States. There is no other
country in the world that incarcerates
citizens at the rate that our nation
does. This burden of over-incarceration
is largely shouldered by the Black
community, destroying the fabric of so
many American families. According
to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics,
Black males accounted for 34% of
the total male prison population. In
architecture, Black males account for
just over 1% of the full population of
organization will continue to thrive why we provided some very specific licensed architects in the U.S. These
and flourish with a robust and diverse action items for your consideration, are both unacceptable disparities.
membership. Again, thank you for calling on everyone to be B.R.A.V.E. NOMA is actively working on
being ALL in for NOMA! Banish racism the architecture disparity by building
In case you are wondering what bridges with new and existing partners
Reach out to those who are grieving
happens when I leave office on in the profession, including ACSA,
December 31st, I’d like share some Advocate for the disinherited AIA, AIAS, NAAB, NCARB and
insight and confidence in the future of Vote in every American election others. On the mass incarceration
NOMA. My successor, Jason Pugh, is Engage each human you meet as you front, this is where we need to get
an amazing leader who is committed would want to be engaged more involved in vetting our elected
to advancing the initiatives that we leaders, which is why being an
have worked on together over the past While all of the above action items informed voter is so important. We
two years. We are very much aligned are important, the one that I must must look closely at our judges, district
in our philosophy on how NOMA emphasize for the sake of time attorneys and sheriffs, who all have
can not only serve our members, but is VOTE IN EVERY AMERICAN the authority to move the needle on
also how we may enhance the potential ELECTION. Our nation is more sentencing reform and decreasing
of our great profession. You will hear polarized than we have ever been in incarceration rates. I encourage all
more from Jason soon, but suffice it to history. Our democracy depends on NOMA chapters to work together to
say that NOMA will be in good hands. informed citizens exercising their help people register to vote, study the
The bigger question that I’d like to right to vote. This November, you ballots carefully and actually vote on
address is where we will go from here must vote and do your research prior or before November 3, 2020. So, where
as a community of architects, designers to casting your ballot. While we are do we go from here? The polls.
and built environment professionals voting for the presidency, there are
who wish to design a better future for also many other important seats that ALL the best,
everyone. It goes without saying that our votes will determine. Please study
2020 has challenged us in ways that your ballot in advance and learn about
we never imagined would be possible. all of the candidates. This is our civic
We are encountering inconvenient duty and I implore you to take this KIMBERLY DOWDELL
truths about our society that we must seriously. 2019–2020 NOMA National President
NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net 5
EDITOR’S PAGE
H ow does the human “fight or flight”
response work when you’re being
attacked on multiple flanks by two
formidable adversaries? By definition,
we experience fight or flight as a physiolog-
ical reaction that occurs in response to
a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to our survival.
The challenge is that at the moment there are few places
to which we can flee, and the only people around to fight
are the loved ones we’re lucky enough to share space with
throughout these times of the duel pandemics—COVID-19
and systemic racism.
Tragically, it appears to have taken the murder of
brother George Floyd to reveal to all those who witnessed
the graphic event, as captured by the ubiquitous cell phone
architectural press, no matter the excellence of our projects
and accomplishments. Thankfully, the profession, led by
NOMA, the AIA, and the AIA Large Firm Roundtable has
changed course and made significant commitments to move
onto a righteous path that is just, equitable, diverse and
inclusive. Today, we are noticeably present and accounted
for in such publications as Architecture Record, the Architects
Newspaper, and Architect Magazine. For us, this represents
opportunity. There is a heightened interest in building
teams that represent a diversity of thought, expertise, and
frankly, lived experience. Whether you’re a firm owner or an
employee, this is the time to seek new opportunities where
they are being created, and to refocus on the ones you might
have pursued in the past with only limited success. The
decision-making lens is expanding, so what was seemingly
video, the brutal ways that systemic racism continues to out of reach before, may be attainable now, if for no other
keep a knee on the collective neck of Black people, not only reason, we are being seen and heard differently at this
here in America, but around the entire globe. As many try moment in time, and hopefully as evidence of an altered
to convert their outrage into constructive action, questions paradigm by mainstream society. Lastly, this is the time
abound as to how and where to direct their energy and when we need to make significant inroads within our own
resources. Meanwhile, time has seemingly accelerated as client base. Black clients need to know who we are, what
many of us work from home, isolated from physical contact we’re about, and what their responsibility is to support and
with our friends and colleagues. The worst thing that any work with us. All things considered, we will turn tragedy
of us could allow to happen is paralysis or fatigue that into opportunity as we enter this brave, new world.
would stand in the way of our individual and collective
responsibilities to “get into good trouble,” so that the death
of Floyd and countless other Black people at the hands of
law enforcement will not have been in vain.
But out of tragedy comes opportunity. The NOMA R. STEVEN LEWIS
Magazine was originally conceived to address the lack FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP Principal
of coverage given to our members by the mainstream Urban Design at ZGF Architects
6 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net
“There is a heightened interest in building teams that represent a diversity of thought, expertise, and frankly, lived experience. Whether you’re a firm owner or an employee, this is the time to seek new opportunities where they are being created, and to refocus on the ones you might have pursued in the past with only limited success.”
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Minority Architects Conference & Expo
DESIGN FEATURE
GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
By DAIMIAN S. HINES AIA, NOMA
10 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.netI
countries. Subsequently, the jury and separately the
voting public made final selections and rankings for
competitors in this two-stage process. Our team consisted
of four individuals: Daimian S. Hines, AIA, NOMA;
Christopher Bent, Assoc AIA; and Gregory Lake, AIA,
who are all Jamaican born and now residing in Texas.
Additionally, the team included Evan Williams, JIA,
n 2018, the Government of Jamaica, acting a practicing architect in Kingston, Jamaica. Some 37
through the Ministry of Economic Growth proposals were submitted, and five shortlisted. Among the
and Job Creation, launched an international entrants was British architect David Adjaye.
competition to design a new parliament building. In March 2019, the Honorable Prime Minister
Since securing its independence in 1963, the Andrew Holness announced the winning teams. Our
country’s parliament has met at a temporary team—named after the country’s motto, “Out of Many,
location, Gordon House in Kingston, the capital city. The One People”—won both the coveted People’s Choice
Government envisioned a state-of-the-art facility that and Design Jury first-place selections. Hines Architecture
will signify its independence and stable democracy. For all + Design (design architect) joint-ventured with Design
competitors, teams were required to include a registered Collaborative Ltd. of Jamaica (architect of record) to
Jamaican architect and also a minimum of fifty percent deliver the building design as well as a comprehensive
Jamaican citizens or those of Jamaican diaspora. campus masterplan. Our team also collaborated with
Jamaican-born Gordon Gill of ASGG served as the the office of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, who was
competition patron in promoting the design process’s commissioned to deliver a masterplan for a government
transparency. The Urban Development Corporation of oval project which is adjacent to our project’s 52-acre site.
Jamaica managed the competition process which was As our site was the focal point of the larger master plan,
comprised of a distinguished jury of design industry the work of the two teams needed to be a confluence
leaders throughout the island and other Caribbean of themes. Continues on next page >
NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net 11PROJECT NAME
Government of Jamaica
New Houses of Parliament
COMPANY NAME
Hines Architecture + Design
WWW.HINESAD.COM
DAIMIAN.HINES@HINESAD.COM
PROJECT LOCATION
National Heroes Park, Kingston,
Jamaica W.I.
COMPLETION YEAR
On the Boards, Estimated 2023
OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Hines Architecture + Design (HINESAD)
ROLE
DESIGN ARCHITECT: Programming, design
and construction documentation services
US TEAM
PIC: Daimian S Hines, AIA, NOMA,
LEED BD+C
PM: Christopher Bent, Assoc AIA
PA: Nico Stearley AIA, LEED BD+C
The building program centers on two nursery, a public amphitheater, formal
PD: Chris Oliver, AIA
debate chambers. The spaces are the House of parliament access and demonstration areas,
BIM MANAGER: Logan Kemp
ID DESIGN MANAGER: Juliana Touma, RA
Representatives and Senate debate chambers. an extensive water wall plaza, and a walking
DESIGN SUPPORT: Juliet Serem, AIA, NOMA The balance of the program includes other trail loop with defined areas for future art
DESIGN SUPPORT: Clayton Fry, AIA parliamentary support spaces, offices, a museum, installations. The site, therefore, is divided
CONSULTANT: Gregory Lake, AIA a library, visitors accommodations, and other into three primary zones. The site to the north
INTERN: Antonio Perez amenities. Critical adjacencies drove the program includes a large flexible community space for
INTERN: Kenny Nguyen development to support various user interfaces activities such as the annual kite festival. The
INTERN: Maggie Au
while simultaneously segregating government center of the site consists of a civic plaza with
INTERN: Jhamaria Hewell
and visitor circulation and access protocols. community amphitheaters and a featured water
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING: Burohappold The project site is quite significant in the wall in addition to the parliament building and
CIVIL ENGINEERING: Vogt Engineering collective history of the island nation. The site parking garages capped by planted roofs. The
MEP ENGINEERING: DBR Engineering
resonates as a reminder of the island’s colonial southern campus contains a formal and historic
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: OJB
ACOUSTICS: Bai
past. The site is currently underutilized as program. This space includes a renovated shrine
FOOD SERVICE: FDP
downtown Kingston experienced a substantial area for national heroes including interred prime
SUSTAINABILITY: Syncrho exodus of commerce to New Kingston, which ministers, governors-general, and historic figures
FAÇADE: MGI is the new central business district. The design as well as a new heroes pavilion.
SPECIFICATIONS: Lisa Murray & Associates solution is a circular building that is legible at The building shape resulted from the
INTERIOR DESIGN: SPADPS both urban and human scales. In analyzing the analyst site and historical notions. During the
LEGAL: Egbuono Law
oval site, a former colonial-era horse racing competition stage, I felt it was important, as
Design Collaborative Ltd (DCL) track, coupled with the notions of the country’s Design Architect, to query team members
ROLE motto “Out of Many, One People,” suggested a regarding their childhood memories as well
Architect of Record circular building that would have no perceived as their aspirations for the island nation. The
JAMAICA TEAM
front, back, rear, or side profiles. The building expression of the building façade is envisioned
Evan Williams, JIA
PIC:
form would always present a front while the as a series of precast concrete X-shaped columns.
Jason Scott
ARCHITECT:
SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR: Abigail Evans
landscape would define the vehicular and The column shape was derived from a study of
pedestrian site access and circulation pathways. geometries contained within the Jamaican flag.
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING: Hue Lyew Chin
HINESAD collaborated with OJB We wanted the flag to be experiential as an
CIVIL ENGINEERING: Hue Lyew Chin
MEP ENGINEERING: Satyn
Landscape architects whom without hesitation occupiable space. We also wanted the columns
LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT: Maryanne signed on early during the competition stage of to be a metaphor for the relationship between
Twymann the pursuit. Through a series of workshops with the island’s citizens and their elected represen-
QUANTITY SURVEYOR: Handel Bowen, local stakeholders and government officials, our tatives as inter-connected pillars that form the
Burrowes & Wallace team developed an informed site program that foundation of the country’s system of parliament.
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING: Premier Land & Water captured the imagination of our client. Our The building plan maintains a clear circulation
ENVIRONMENTAL: Environmental
vision was a dynamic park that included a series strategy with a central circulation boulevard and
Solutions Ltd.
of outdoor rooms that formalize a variety of circular loop around two interior gardens which
LAND SURVEY: GEO Graphics Ltd.
GEOTECH: NHL Engineering
functions and activities. introduce natural light from rooftop skylight
Some of these functions included a national glazing systems. Rich woods, stones, planting, and
PHOTO CREDITS: memorial shrine area where the country’s feature walls to incorporate local art define the
Hines Architecture + Design national heroes are or will be interred, a plant main circulation routes throughout the building.
12 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.netCommentary by DAIMIAN S. HINES AIA, NOMA
ARCHITECTURE
OF EMOTION
It is not often that architects
have an opportunity to work on
a transformational design such as
the Jamaican parliament building.
Prime minister the Honorable Andrew
Holness, noted that this project will be the
most important in the history of the country.
I had the opportunity to study in India where
I was able to visit Chandigarh, the country’s
capital. There I was able to experience the
masterwork of Le Corbusier’s designs for
the buildings that comprised the Indian
parliament. This was a magnificent experience which were educational, enlightening, and
and was made even more profound as I was in some cases, a trigger for memories long
able to build a relationship with one of the forgotten. Never did I think our team would
country’s most notable architects Balkrishna sweep the competition awards nor did I allow
Doshi, a protege of Le Corbusier. myself to dwell on the possibilities. My core
I also had the opportunity to study in focus was on producing the body of work
Berlin, where I and fellow students toured required to compete.
the then under construction iconic German As a small office, I was confident we
Chancellory, which spans the Spree River, could compete. I had studied at a top college
with the lead Architect Axel Schultes. for architecture, I had worked in large scale
I did not imagine that in 2018 I would competitive design firms, and I had recently
be conceptualizing a modern vision for my built a sixty-person office in Southeast Asia
country of birth. This experience was both with a long time cohort Daniel West, AIA.
surreal and a source of great pride. I was Since winning the commission, I have
extremely emotional during the entire design been asked to speak about the competition
process. When I was eight years old, my family process and the design of the Government
migrated to America so that my sister and of Jamaica’s new parliament building. I often
I would have a chance at a better education. start a speaking engagement with a preemptive
After graduating from university and disclaimer noting that I may become
practicing in Chicago, Houston, and Southeast emotional.
Asia, I returned to Houston where I started a I have since abandoned the disclaimer and
boutique design office. I leveraged relationships embraced the notion that architecture should
across the world to compete with notable and can be emotional.
competitors as British architect David Adjaye I, therefore, implore our NOMA design
and French architect Hugh Dutton. community to seek and deliver projects that
My emotions were fuel during this almost evoke strong emotion, challenge traditional
one-year-long international competition. The forms of practice and endeavor to compete
process included several trips to the island whenever an opportunity arises.
NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net 13AIA LARGE FIRM ROUNDTABLE
UPDATE ON LFRT COMMITMENTS
AND PARTNERSHIP WITH NOMA
By TIM DUFAULT FAIA, LEED AP®
I
n our June 5th open letter to the Committed over $127,000 in member and
members of NOMA, the member general fund contributions to the seven HBCU
firms of the AIA Large Firm Schools of Architecture to fund student support
Roundtable (LFRT) committed to programs that provide relief for high need students
work in partnership with NOMA as they return to campus/classes under difficult
to create meaningful change, equi- economic conditions;
table work environments, and build systems
which will make real our core values of Equity, Committed over $88,000 in member and general
Diversity, and Inclusion. Since the member fund contributions to NOMA to expand and
firms of the LFRT represent the 60 largest support the NOMA fellows program for emerging
architectural firms in the country, we have a professionals working in internships at architecture
unique platform and opportunity to make firms across the country;
a difference, and we are committed to doing Committed over $88,000 in member and general
just that. In the last several months, we have fund contributions to the Architects Foundation
engaged our member firms in activities to fund ARE grants for African American young
designed to facilitate that change, including: Hosted forums on justice and equity in design
professionals as they study and take the licensing including a webinar led by Bryan Lee Jr., of
Committed $250,000 over five years to found exam; Colloqate Design (view here);
the NOMA Fellows program. 2020 represents Formulated contract language denouncing racism
the second year of that commitment and we look Hosted a forum of Deans of the Colleges and
and discriminatory practices that architects face in Schools of Architecture around the country in
forward to continuing to invest in the bright future client, contractor, and vendor interactions;
of our profession; which 110 participants including 32 deans and
14 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.netAyers / Saint / Gross Jacobs Global Buildings their students in a dialogue on the virtual practice,
FRT MEMBER FIRM Beck
BIG
BWBR Architects, Inc.
JLG Architects
Kirksey Architecture
Kohn Pedersen Fox
how justice and equity are being addressed in
their schools, how to increase the number of black
architects, and what additional actions we can
take together to achieve a JEDI profession;
Supported the founding of the NOMA President’s
Associates, P.C. Circle with more than half the member firms
Callison RTKL Inc committing across all levels of the Circle;
KTGY Group, Inc.
Cannon Design Our HR leaders are working on sharing processes
Leo A Daly in recruitment, interview, and hiring practices that
CBT
reduce the impact of implicit bias in the hiring
Little
Clark Nexsen process;
LPA
Cooper Carry Inc. Penned an open letter to producers of digital
LS3P media content on the lack of representation of
Corgan people of color, especially black people, in digital
MG2 entourage and demanding they immediately
Cuningham Group correct the problem;
Architecture, Inc. Moody Nolan
Began a program with the seven HBCU Schools
DLR Group NBBJ of Architecture to bring additional resources
and content to support their students through
EYP NELSON mentorship, shared instruction, seminars, and
dedicated internships;
Ennead Architects LLP Page, Inc.
Holding a joint meeting of the LFRT and NOMA
EwingCole Perkins + Will
leadership in conjunction with NOMA’s national
Flad Architects Perkins Eastman virtual conference, October 14–18, 2020.
Architects, PC
FreemanWhite, Inc. These activities are only the start. Our
Populous Group, LLC Justice and Equity = Diversity and Inclusion
FXCollaborative ( JE=DI) task force continues to meet month-
Quinn Evans ly to develop strategies and tactics we can
Gensler implement in our firms, develop language
RAMSA we can adopt across the profession on justice
Gould Evans, Inc.
and equity, and promote broader and deeper
RS&H
Gresham Smith discussions on race, racism, and architecture’s
Shepley Bulfinch role in solving the problems in our profession
Hammel, Green and and in our built environment. In support of
Abrahamson, Inc. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill this goal, we are developing programs for
(HGA) LLP the senior leadership of our member firms
to evaluate the culture of architecture with
HDR Architecture, Inc. SmithGroup a focus on building intercultural humility,
self-awareness, and opportunities for all.
HED Solomon Cordwell Buenz
The LFRT remains committed to ongoing
HKS, Inc. Stantec Architecture support and partnership with NOMA
leaders locally and nationally to achieve our
HLW International LLP tvsdesign (tvs) shared vision of a profession that embraces
all people of color and creates opportunities
HMC Architects WATG for the growth and development of a new
diverse generation of firm leaders. As the
HNTB Architecture Woods Bagot
CEO’s of the largest architecture firms in
HOK Group, Inc. ZGF Architects, LLP the country, we are committed to making
a difference in our own firms, holding each
Hord Coplan Macht other accountable, leveraging architecture as
a tool to break the chains of systemic racism,
Huckabee and continue to build our partnership with
NOMA to double the number of licensed
Huitt-Zollars
black architects by 2030.
NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net 15UPGRADE YOUR SOFTWARE: TIPS FOR
MASTERING THE VIRTUAL WORKPLACE
By JOEL AVERY, NOMA
I f there were a
singular instance
demonstrating the
poignance of our
current technological
climate it would’ve
been this past Saturday when,
at the end of our weekly family
get together, my eighty-four year
old father bowed his head in
prayer and thanked God for Eric
Yuan and the digital marvel he
founded in 2011. The praying is a
habit of Dad’s but the vocalized
gratefulness for Zoom or any
enough to change a luddite
octogenarian’s heart? Or was
there really a more profound
software shift that took place?
You can still do well at your
business without knowing the
difference in the answers to that
question, but your life, and the
life of your teammates will be
easier if you know that the real
answer is the latter. Mastering
the virtual workplace isn’t as
much of a tech challenge as it
is a matter of objective analysis.
Here are some key points that
YOUR WORKSPACE
OR YOUR LIFE
One of the newest realizations
is that people who work from
home often work harder and
longer hours. This means you
need to take greater care of the
space you’ll be occupying. Use
all of your ergonomic skills to
optimize desk and chair height
particularly to minimize stress
on your wrists, arms and back.
Standing desks offer the most
documented health benefits.
Minimize clutter and
everything in between, provides
good exercise for ocular muscles
and can help ease the effects of
chronic screen time.
Standing workstation benefits
Resting your eyes
MEETING SKILLS
ON FLEEK
Avoid the business productivity
killer: bad meetings. The only
thing worse than a face to face,
terribly designed conference is the
technology is a very new thing. hinge on our brains (the ultimate distractions as far as possible
same thing but with a screen, bad
Did the crippling, global effects software) and way of thinking while providing a range of focal
audio and an extra 20 minutes
of COVID-19 bring something more so than digital wizardry. points. Having places for the
tacked on to make sure everyone
new out of Silicon Valley; new eyes to rest near, distant, and
16 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.netknows you’re the boss and they Teams is the clear and easy for your Internet service.
better still be working hard! choice for a communications For example, you can have a
If you are the one leading the upgrade for your team. Slack, Comcast cable service and a
meeting do everything within Asana and many other products fiber service from Spectrum. This
your power to make sure it is provide the same critical concept: will put your critical Internet
not a waste of time. Remember, hierarchical organization for service needs into two different
people are working too long as collaboration and centralized technologies with two different
it is. Meetings need to be more critical data. 30 project emails providers requiring multiple
concise and impactful than with 4 different recipients sent types of failures to completely
ever. Agendas, inviting only the at various times with multiple disconnect you.
needed individuals and setting copies in the body of the text
time limits can vastly improve produces a digitally dead product SAVE AND SAVE JOEL AVERY is the principal of the
workplace moral. that can only be resuscitated YOURSELVES design and technology consulting
After content, using the with either a brilliant memory All of your data everywhere firm CREATiVENESS. He’s worked
with architecture firms, advancing
best virtual meeting tips is key. for what and where things exist needs to be backed up. It’s very
their understanding and use of
Having a good camera is almost in your inbox or via constant possible, now that you’ve got
technology—keeping clients coast
as important as having a good searchings. The collaborative so many people working from to coast informed, empowered
microphone. After that, lighting tools obviate that by simply home, there’s a chance you’ve got and secured for more than a quarter
might be the most important putting all of the messaging in a data outside the office that is not century. NOMA brought Joel on
element. Avoid strong back logical location accessible by all. a part of your standard backup board officially as Chief Information
lighting as much as possible. Eye routine. There are far too many Officer in 2018.
contact with the camera and not Be creative, ditch email options for replicating your files joel@CREATiVENESS.com
staring at your own screen will for this to be a real problem.
No, really, research shows
create a better connection with Seriously, at this stage even
email is evil
your colleagues. home users should be backing
Lastly, GoToMeeting, Teams, All about Microsoft Teams up their data both locally (to a
Zoom, Join.Me all have their cheap external hard drive) and
dark side. Part of it is really An overview of multiple remotely to one of the many
the extra stressful reality of the collaboration platforms total cloud backup services like
current world but research has Backblaze or iDrive.
shown “Zoom Fatigue” is a real It’s important to mention
thing that many of us battle REDUNDANCY here that OneDrive, Dropbox
every day. Mindful individuals This is another area that hasn’t and similar technologies can
will make the best use of the changed just because the help replicate individual files
technology while using it workplace is mostly virtual. All but in their most common
sparingly. core business processes need to configurations they are sharing
have a “Plan B” especially in the tools and not backup tools.
5 steps to great meetings middle of a pandemic. If 2020
has taught us anything, it is that Backblaze home (single price
25 tips for remote meetings “unlimited” cloud backup)
anything can and will go wrong.
Zoom Fatigue Already having a plan in place
Backblaze business
for what to do when it does will
Really, it’s a real thing not only ease stress but it may iDrive home
save your company.
How do you keep you and iDrive business
REDUCE RELIANCE your team productive when the
ON EMAIL office internet is out? How about Local Mac backup via Time
That’s right. Email, the 30 year when their home internet is out? Machine
old technology has been outdated Redundancy like that used to be
Review of multiple services
for at least a decade. These days something for large enterprises.
most of us have more than one These days most metropolitan
Almost every tech noted here has
email address to keep track of areas and even the suburbs have
been around for over a decade.
and we spend as much as an hour multiple ISP’s. In the remote
Leveraging the capabilities of the
a day simply sorting, reviewing, economy two hours of downtime
best while limiting the usage of
responding to and searching for could easily equate to the cost
the marginal requires an upgrade
that one specific message. of an entire year of duplicate
to our critical thinking but the
If your office is already part high-speed internet bills. For
benefits will live well beyond the
of the Microsoft Office 365 best protection choose different
end of the pandemic.
environment then Microsoft technologies and providers
NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net 1735 WORDS
BLACK SPACE
“Freedom is often haphazardly
“When I think of black construed by the misgivings of
spaces I think of the independence. The liberties of
opportunity for spatial freedom and independence are
freedom. Where one’s black lost to an instability founded on
identity is celebrated... the inability to find something of
comfortable. Spaces and value in ourselves. The failure to
places where one can exist achieve these liberties supposedly
without the fear of having comes from a personal perspective
to wear a façade or fear for
that you, yourself, do not willingly
your safety. This was the first
share equitably. However, true
year of my life I realized
freedom flourishes from trust
it may be a constructed,
both ways, which flows from
collective mythology.”
interdependence with others. We
TYA WINN, NOMA,
DARK MATTER UNIVERSITY have lost the ability to blissfully
trust one another in the places
we’ve grown accustomed to, the
places we love, and the simple
“Black space is in part
being that comes from this.
a place of celebrating Liberty cannot exist until we
and sharing how we can remove racism from every facet
thrive in the face of anti- of society. Therefore, we cannot
obtain the independence of
Black racist practices that liberty or its freedoms until we
perpetuate the cultural, end discrimination. The poorest of
economic, and political people, in their darkest hour, seek
the trust of others when in need.
harm enabled by our COVID-19 showed us that the
built environmental work same is true for the most gloriously
on our communities.” rich in our culture, which dire
enough will seek the same trust.”
KOFI BOONE ULYSSES SEAN VANCE, III
18 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net“We must imagine
“An earth centered environmental design investigation and build spaces of
that evolves more than it is manifested, where liberation, where
the body and the spirit of that body are of utmost
importance and almost always enclosed within an
black life can thrive,
‘asymmetry symmetry’ aesthetic.” JACK TRAVIS but this will be only
be possible if we first
abolish the (institutional)
spaces where black life
does not matter.”
MABEL O. WILSON
“Black space to me is a space “The train of capitalistic exploitation
of Pride without boundaries of black bodies has come to
crashing halt. COVID-19 has
set by physical or mental
exposed white America’s
constraints. Within our dual infatuation with historical erasure.
pandemic Black Space has The act of rebellion is generations
transformed to be a fragile of triumphant survival and a
reckoning that silenced voices
yet critical space where have not forgotten their past and
I must protect my peace predetermined future. Sacred black
while continuing to push space is defined by the culture
of resilience, because around these
for a better future for black
parts, this train will result in not
and brown Architects.” 6 feet apart but 6 feet under.”
SAMANTHA JOSAPHA, RA, NOMA, NCARB CHRIS LOCKE
NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net 19MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM NOMA MEMBERS
LEED FOR DIVERSITY
By MICHAEL MARSHALL
A s a practicing architect for almost thirty
years, who happens to be an African
American, I would like to share my
thoughts on the need for diversity
in our profession, and a few ways to
possibly achieve it. It has been noted
by economists and other international thinkers that
all trends and indicators predict that in the next 50
years 75 percent of the world’s population will live in
urban settings. There is obviously an advantage here,
as we evolve on our planet and as resources become
increasingly scarce, sustainable, cultural and racially-
diverse environments will be necessary to achieve
an equitable balance, bringing people from different
backgrounds and ethnicities together in peaceful
coexistence as this migration to urban centers occurs.
have been traditionally separated by socioeconomic
and other factors. Diversity in the profession of
architecture is an imperative.
As it stands now, minorities are woefully
underrepresented in the field and practice of
architecture. From my perspective I can see that
there are steps being taken to correct this imbalance
but it will take perhaps a few generations to achieve
effective results. I think there are some “affirmative”
steps that can now be utilized to correct this present
day disparity of representation in the practice of
architecture.
There are two areas I see where corrections
are needed: 1) inside large corporate architectural
practices where there should be more advances in the
hiring and promotion of women and minorities at
Architects, planners and designers who share the same meaningful levels, and 2) in the need for collaboration
backgrounds of the various people coming together in between woman- and minority-led firms teamed with
urban environments will need to function as mediators larger mainstream corporate practices. This must occur
to convey the nuances of the different groups that not only where there are public-private partnerships,
20 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.netJust as there is certification of buildings that are LEED CERTIFIED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), I propose an
institutional rating system or certifications for architectural firms that will
establish what are good standards in achieving diversity and inclusion.
per government policy, but also for local and federal firms, monitored by a group outside of the normal
government projects for economic development. professional organizations that architects are
This goal of equity should also be the target in the associated with that will establish what are good
private sector where, unless there is some mandate for standards in achieving diversity and inclusion. I
inclusion, it is never considered as a positive means to propose that these agencies, similar to Standard and
bring in new voices for the design of our communities. Poor’s or Moody’s would function not unlike these
I would like to offer a solution that is more “carrot” rating systems: as recommendations for understanding
than “stick” as a possible remedy to this situation that I the diversity and inclusions intent of particular
have witnessed, personally and professionally. architectural practices.
In my past experience the sharing of services This rating can be leveraged in a competitive
and, in particular, fees for an architectural project, fashion for winning commissions in the private sector
depending on the scale of the project, can result or public sector. For the private sector developers
in push back from larger corporate architectural of public or private projects, they can achieve
practices to collaborate with woman- and minority- certification for being good corporate citizens for
owned small businesses, even when there is a call for bringing together diverse design teams, in return for
inclusion as part of a mandate to achieve diversity. In regulatory approvals, as the LEED ratings are now a
addition to the sharing of fees and services, there is bonus and are sometimes mandatory depending on
also the sensitive subject of artistic authorship of the the jurisdiction. I think this can be a certification that
design of a project. The titles of “Design Architect” will allow private sector firms to brand themselves as
and “Architect of Record” usually settle this issue, but making socio-economic inclusion a normal “business
with true collaborations in the design of projects this as usual” process. Collaborations with small businesses,
can sometimes result in a difficult call. I have found and woman- and minority-owned architectural
that M.O.U.s at the start of the project is highly practices could then have a business development
recommended for clarity of tasks and responsibilities advantage nationally.
of the teaming and is now a standard practice of our In conclusion I want to see diversity and inclusion
collaborations. “monetized.” I want to show that diversity is a great
So here is my pitch for the “carrot”. investment now and for our future.
Just as there is certification of buildings that
are “LEED Certified” (Leadership in Energy and Respectfully,
Environmental Design), I propose an institutional MICHAEL MARSHALL, AIA, NOMA, NCARB
rating system or certifications for architectural
NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.net 21NOMA FOUNDATION
FELLOWSHIP INAUGURAL
COHORT
30+ STUDENTS AWARDED VIRTUAL
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS TO SUPPORT
PROFESSION’S DIVERSITY EFFORTS
By AMBER LACROIX
T
he National Organization of and the NOMA Foundation Fellowship
Minority Architects (NOMA) program, funded by the American Institute
recently announced the of Architects Large Firm Roundtable (AIA
placement of 30 architecture LFRT), is helping us to achieve that,” said
students as the inaugural cohort NOMA President and HOK Principal,
of the NOMA Foundation Kimberly Dowdell, NOMA, AIA, LEED AP.
Fellowship (NFF). The NFF is a two-month “Mentorship, experience, and exposure are
virtual research fellowship hosted over the all key to the success of any architect. NFF
summer at leading architecture firms across formalizes that support structure for mi-
the country. Fellows engage in design research norities and connects NOMAS members to
and benefit from firm mentorship. Amidst firms expressing an interest in supporting the
COVID-19 and record unemployment, next generation of architects, recognizing the
NFF provides professional experience to growing importance of diversity to the field.”
underrepresented students with the goal of NOMA originally launched the NFF as
keeping them engaged in the profession and a three-month summer design fellowship;
providing a pipeline to eventual employment. however, COVID-19 forced the redesign of
In all recessions, including the current one, the program to ensure that fellows and firms
minorities are often the most adversely were availed of meaningful experiences while
impacted by job loss. protecting their health and wellness.
“During this time of economic uncer- “The new NOMA Foundation Fellowship
tainty, we have an imperative to support program is the first initiative to launch since
the next generation of minority architects we announced the AIA Large Firm Round
looking to find their way in the profession Table 2030 Diversity Challenge, which calls
22 NOMA Magazine, Fall 2020 | NOMA.netThe inaugural fellowship cohort includes the following architecture students and graduates placed at design firms across the U.S.
GABRIEL ANDRADE AARON DEROUX WALTER HUNT OLAOLUWAPO ODUKOYA
University of Virginia University of Illinois at Kent State University Illinois Institute of Technology
ENNEAD ARCHITECTS Urbana-Champaign CANNONDESIGN CALLISONRTKL
HED
STORM CAMPO SAMI JABER HIMESH PATEL
Woodbury University MONIQUE DORROH University of Louisiana at Lafayette New York Institute of Technology
CUNINGHAM GROUP Penn State University NBBJ AYERS SAINT GROSS
FXCOLLABORATIVE
CARL’DRAIL CANNON ROBERTO MEDINA MALACHI PURSLEY
Kent State University KERISTEN EDWARDS Ball State University Louisiana State University
ZGF Tulane University COLLOQATE ENNEAD ARCHITECTS
ENNEAD ARCHITECTS
IN-SAN CHIANG CHRISTINA MEYER ROSARIO ROJAS
Illinois Institute of Technology DESIREE GREEN North Dakota State University California Baptist University
GRESHAM SMITH Ball State University LS3P ROTHSCHILD DOYNO
GENSLER COLLABORATIVE
NGOC LINH DANH NIMAH MOHIUDDIN
Morgan State University NANCY GUERRERO Illinois Institute of Technology SYDNEE SAMPSON
GOULD EVANS Prairie View A&M MASS DESIGN GROUP Tuskegee University
CANNONDESIGN EYP
TAKUMI DAVIS BARBARA NASILA She will also participate in the
Carnegie Mellon University DAMION HARDY University of California, Berkeley remote ZGF INSTITUTE.
DESMOND ARCHITECTS Mississippi State University CUNINGHAM GROUP
Davis will also participate in WIGHT & CO. TYLER SAUTER
the ZGF INSTITUTE. KENNY NGUYEN Illinois Institute of Technology
DIANA HERNANDEZ University of Houston CANNONDESIGN
JAMEICA DEMERCADO Serrano California Baptist MOODY NOLAN
California Baptist University University He will also participate in the DEJANAE WRIGHT
HORD COPLAN MACHT HED remote SHEPLEY BULFINCH Morgan State University
Summer Experience Program. KTGY ARCHITECTURE +
PLANNING
for us to increase the number of licensed 28, 2020. The fellowship funding is paid for “The uncertainty of COVID-19 has
Black architects from 2,300 to 5,000 by 2030, in large-part by the AIA-LFRT donations to caused so much stress in the lives of degree-
expanding representation from 2 percent to NOMA. Fellows’ work is capped at 100 hours seeking students. I’m extremely grateful for
roughly 4 percent Black licensed architects in for a $2,000 stipend; however, host firms the NOMA Foundation Fellowship paired
the U.S.,” said Carole Wedge, FAIA LEED offered additional funding to supplement with the support of AIA firm members and
AP, President of Shepley Bulfinch and AIA the fellows’ work and hours. others. It is an opportunity and privilege that
LFRT Chair. “It’s more important now, than In addition to the fellows and firms truly keeps me engaged in the profession,”
ever, that we find meaningful mentorship, matched above through the NFF, KTGY said Monique Dorroh, a third-year M.Arch
growth and job opportunities for students and Architecture + Planning extended internships student placed at FXCollaborative, and
recent graduates so that we may continue to to two additional finalists, Zai Cook of part of the NOMAS Penn State chapter.
diversify the field of architecture and reflect Virginia Tech and Ferdinem Bartolon of “I’ve spoken to firms who offer professional
the race and gender of the communities University of Detroit Mercy. Aaron deRoux, development to students by providing advice
that we serve. We are inspired to learn a 2020 M.Arch graduate of University of and hosting summer workshops. This is an
about the experiences of the fellows and the Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, placed at amazing first step! However, I pray that
professionals who will mentor them will have. HED, was also named the 2020 Kenneth students are able to find additional ways to
We have much to learn from our younger E. Casey Fellow. Kenneth E Casey, AIA, become engaged in the profession. As young
generations for they are the future of our NOMA passed August 3, 2019. NOMA designers we can change the future, designing
profession and built environment.” honored Casey with the creation of a new more each day with safety, sustainability, and
The fellowship application process fellowship named in memory of his legacy. justice in mind. We only need the opportunity
was open to any National Organization of Most NOMAS students who accepted to show what we are made of. This is mine.”
Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) the fellowships are seeking full-time
members in good standing. The virtual pro- employment, post-graduation, from their
gram ran for eight weeks from July 6–August architecture programs.
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