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Roberta Washington, Architect. New York, New York

Roberta Washington, Architect. New York, New York

Released Thursday, 27th January 2022
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Roberta Washington, Architect. New York, New York

Roberta Washington, Architect. New York, New York

Roberta Washington, Architect. New York, New York

Roberta Washington, Architect. New York, New York

Thursday, 27th January 2022
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The distinguished architect Roberta Washington, who is the principal (or head) of her own firm, Roberta Washington Architects in New York City, speaks with oral historian and architect Sarah Filkins as part of Filkins’ Archie Green Fellowship to document women architects throughout the United States. Washington traces her career, her involvement in community planning and network building, and her work in designing hospitals, schools, and the African Burial Ground Interpretive Center in lower Manhattan for the National Parks Service. She talks about the challenges she faced as a woman--particularly as an African American woman--in a field that, especially when she started, was overwhelming White and male. She begins this episode by recalling how, as part a junior high school assignment to interview “someone about their job,” her life was changed when she chanced upon a Black professor of architecture, who just happened to be renting her neighbor’s home.

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