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Diversity among Architects presents a series of essays questioning the homogeneity of architecture practitioners, who remain overwhelmingly male and Caucasian, to help you create a field more representative of the population you serve. The book is the collected work of author Craig L. Wilkins, an African American scholar and practitioner, and discusses music, education, urban geography, social justice, community design centers, race-space identity, shared landscape, and many more topics.

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• Part 1 Space
• 1 The Space between Sight and Touch
• 2 Brothers/Others: Gonna Paint the White House Black
• 3 A Cuirass Architecture
• 4 Bi-Space: The Original Social Networking Site
• Part 2 Music
• 5 A Style That Nobody Can Deal With: Notes from the Hip Hop Doo Bop Inn
• 6 (W)Rapped Space: The Architecture of Hip Hop
• 7 More Jazz, Salsa and Hip-Hop in Architecture
• Part 3 History
• 8 African Americans in Architectural Education
• 9 Twisted: African-American Architects and Signature Commissions
• 10 The Future of Yesterday
• Part 4 Practice
• 11 Once More unto the Breach: Collaborative Teaching Approaches Designed To Bridge the Rift between the Architecture Academy and Professional Practitioners
• 12 To Be or Not To Be
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Wilkins (Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univ. of Michigan) has produced a provocative contemporary architectural manifesto akin to manifestos of the early modern architectural era. The volume comprises 12 essays that span the author's career as designer-educator. Arranged in order of original publication and presented under four headings--"Space," "Music," "History," and "Practice"--the essays, taken together, constitute a weighty philosophical tome in a mere 185 pages. Wilkins's polemical style is nearly impervious to deconstruction at the beginning but in the end is eminently readable. The author turns hegemonic ideologies of architectural professionals inside out by examining them through the lens of a marginalized citizenry--specifically, African American communities. Wilkins hopes his probative dialogues will resonate with a broad swath of design professionals who are receptive to lessons one might glean from diverse, underrepresented communities, but the book is more likely to interest a narrower group, academicians who already promote the public value and ethical explorations of community design centers. Wilkins is most insightful--and lyrical--when he juxtaposes the unchallenged public protection accorded to architects as arbiters of aesthetics (to the exclusion of almost all other services) against African American experiences that reverberate with hip-hop culture and bispatial communication. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals. --W. Mick Charney, Kansas State University

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Dr. Craig L. Wilkins, architect, activist, artist, and author, serves on the faculty of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning. The former director of the Detroit Community Design Center and Hip Hop architectural theorist is recognized as one of the country's leading scholars on African Americans in architecture. His work explores the various social, cultural, political, historical, and aesthetic contributions of people of color with the kind of broad and deep insight that derives from three decades of professional and academic experience in the field.

In addition to numerous essays and articles, Dr. Wilkins is the author of the multiple award-winning The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music and co-editor of Activist Architecture: The Philosophy & Practice of Community Design Centers. In 2010 he was named a Kresge Fellow for Literary Arts, recognizing his contributions in the field.

Dr. Wilkins received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, where he was later selected as one of 100 Alumni of Notable Achievement of the last 100 years by the College of Liberal Arts; his masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and his bachelors from the University of Detroit School of Architecture.