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Article: Scaling the Heights of Architectural Academe.(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 6, 2000
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CHICAGO -- If you ask most architects to name the 20th century titans in their field, people like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Gehry will no doubt be on the list. The only people of color likely to be mentioned are I.M. Pei, Minoru Yamasaki and maybe Tadao Ando. It is doubtful that you'll hear the names of any women.
David Sharpe, an African American protege of Mies van der Rohe, is an exception to the White, male image of people his field. Together with Dr. Mahjoub Elnimeiri, a structural engineer from Khartoum, Sudan, Sharpe hopes their work is not only enhancing the specialty field of skyscraper architecture, but that ...