U-SoA’s Germane Barnes Talks Industry Challenges
Germane Barnes is designer-in-residence for the Opa-Locka Community Development Corp. in Florida and a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Miami.
My initial reaction to Young’s speech was that it is 50 years later and architecture is still dealing with the same issues. Similar to the young student mentioned in the speech, I too dealt with an absence of black role models in academia. It is unfortunate that the average school of architecture employs less than two black full-time faculty members. Minority recruitment is devoid of the proper voices who relate to the intended audience. Read more.
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