equity

Beginning my career as an architect in Canada, my worldview of gender roles within the workplace took on a distinctly North American perspective. I joined B+H…

What efforts are being made to address systemic racism in Canada’s architecture schools? School of Architecture Director Anne Bordeleau reports on the progress…

Ten years ago, on my first day of architecture school, I walked into a lecture hall filled with Apple laptops—something I could not afford—and felt an…

Equity, diversity and inclusion have come to the foreground as issues of central importance in the past months. Architectural organizations are beginning to…

The RAIC is calling for volunteer members to serve on its new Promoting Equity & Justice Advisory Committee. The focus of the advisory committee is to…

How are architects faring as we head into the second wave of the pandemic? Two surveys in late August—one by the Ontario Association of Architects, the other…

I am an architect in Toronto, and one of the founding partners at studioDOM Architects. I am also a woman of colour who understands the courage it takes to be…

Architects of African, Caribbean and Black descent represent less than two percent of licensed practitioners in North America. Black women architects…

TEXT Betsy Williamson, Principal, Williamson Williamson The atomization of architecture offices during the pandemic presented an immediate and profound…

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women By Jane Hall (Phaidon, 2019) A few years ago, the conversation about gender equity in architecture centered on the…