Advocacy

We believe unequivocally that Black lives matter and stand with those bravely taking action against systemic racial injustice. We believe that as architects, we have a critical role to play in creating safe places and processes that foster equity, equality, and justice and that empower historically marginalized communities.

In solidarity with other designers working to envision and realize a just future, we have signed onto the Design Justice Demands of the Design As Protest (DAP) Collective, an anti-racist, non-hierarchical, action-based collective of BIPOC designers dedicated to researching and advancing design justice in the built environment.

We encourage you to sign on, as well, and to make use of their Anti-Racist Design Justice Index and other resources and tools for guiding concrete action on these issues.

As architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities, and guided by scientific consensus and reason, we combat climate change through design and advocacy. We invite you to join us as a signatory of Architects Advocate and a signatory and Working Group member of US Architects Declare, a network of architects are ultimately organizing for radical change in the building sector around climate, social justice, and biodiversity.

We are also a signatory of the 1.5oC COP26 Communiqué issued by Architecture 2030, which calls on sovereign government leaders participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to match our commitment to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5oC carbon budget.