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The ?Tu White School of Architecture? proposes policies for an anti-racist, restorative education system Many conversations about making architecture more diverse and inclusive, making it work better for more people, and making it more exciting and impactful begin with architecture school. The lessons taught, histories accepted and challenged, perspectives welcomed or rejected, and voices amplified or suppressed shape the future of the profession. But are architecture schools doing enough to improve diversity" It?s too little too slow, according to Chris Daemmrich, the architectural designer and advocate behind the Tu White School of Architecture, an evolving exploration of an antiracist, queer, feminist agenda for an American architectural institution. The Tu White School of Architecture isn?t an actual institution. It?s a work of satire taking the form of a website that discusses whiteness in the architecture industry, articulates the importance of diversity of race, gender identity, class, and experience in higher education, and proposes ways that an architecture school could change its policies and practices to affirm diversity and reject white supremacy. As architecture schools start up for the academic year, it?s also a reminder of the steep road ahead for achieving real diversity and inclusion in higher education.
?I see [the Tu White School of Architecture] first and foremost as a hopeful exercise for what a commitment to justice and equit...