Perkins+Will?s Gabrielle Bullock wants to make architecture more diverse
The director of global diversity at Perkins+Will talks to Curbed Growing up in New York City, Gabrielle Bullock, a principal at U.S. architecture firm Perkins+Will, saw firsthand the negative impact poorly designed housing projects had on her community.
Although she did not grow up in one herself, Bullock noticed that ?[the housing projects] were very tall, had very small windows, and [had] very little relationship to the scale of a person living there. They didn?t engage the inhabitants. They were simply a place to lay your head.? So at age 12, Bullock decided that she wanted to be an architect as a way to improve public housing and the lives of those who lived in them.
This interest eventually led Bullock to Rhode Island School of Design, where she graduated with an architecture degree in 1984, becoming only the second African-American woman in the university?s history to do so. ?It was a somewhat isolating experience,? she recalls. Now, as the director of global diversity at Perkins+Will, Bullock oversees the diversity, inclusion, and engagement program for the 2,200-person firm, which is based in Chicago but operates globally. The company?s program strives to foster a culture of diversity and inclusion not just within the company, but within the profession at large. This includes conducting K-12 and university outreach to ?build a pipeline? to get more people of color into architecture.
Bullock did not know any architects growing up, nor did she have mentors. ...
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