Increasingly, scholars are investigating the history of black spaces of resistance, cultural reproduction, and self-preservation with most literature focusing on professional interventions in urban contexts. Less is little written about African American agency in contemporary, rural, built environments, especially planning and preservation of buildings in intentional communities.
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On Friday, April 21, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Dean Almy as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series.
Roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, the Center hosts the Friday Lunch Forum Series. The aim of the series is for faculty, staff, and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate topics and to share ideas about history, practice, theory, and new directions for architecture. Recordings of each forum will be posted as they become available.
Primo Orpilla is the co-founder and principal of Studio O+A, an interiors firm in San Francisco that specializes in workplace design. Establishing the company with Verda Alexander in Silicon Valley in 1991, Orpilla drew on an early interest in engineering and a feel for the growing tech economy to orient O+A to a rapidly changing work environment.
On Friday, April 14, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Allan Shearer as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series.
Roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, the Center hosts the Friday Lunch Forum Series. The aim of the series is for faculty, staff, and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate topics and to share ideas about history, practice, theory, and new directions for architecture. Recordings of each forum will be posted as they become available.
