Black Architect Wendell Campbell!

How many ways can a person

build a house? I wonder. But

Wendell Campbell is definitely

the architect expert. HE was

born April 27, 1927 in Indiana.

He graduated high school

as a National Honor Society Scholar.

He got drafted in to the US ARMy.

He got his BA in architecture anc city

planning from the Illinois Institute

Of Technology. He got a full scholarship

from Commonwealth Edison. ( those

full scholarships are so hard to

get.)

Wendell Campbell was president

of Campbel & Mascai, an architectural

and urban planning firm. He was the

Ceo of Wendell Campbell Associatess.

One of his projects was the

Dusable Museum of African AMerican

HIstory, the McCormick Place

expansion, the KIng Drive

Gateway, redevelopment plans
for the city of New Orleans

and the new Bronzeville Military

Academy. THe man stays busy.

MR. Campbell, was a founder

as well as first president of the

National Organization of Minority

Architects, founded in 1971.
He has served on so many things

like:

board of the Illinois Chapter of NOMA, etc

the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce,

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center,

the Black Ensemble Theater, the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects,

the Chicago Architectural Assistance Center and the South Side YMCA,etc.

Wendell Campbell is dedicated to

making the quality of affordable housing

better in metropolitian centers. That way

he is bringing 21st century technology

to today’s urban families.

my source:

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp…e=Wendell%20Campbell

Birmingham Firm Helps Black People Become Architects

It’s so many types of houses that are
made. It’s a wonder of , who designs
them? How long does it take? Therefore
I introduce you to a situation of
inspiration:

James Wilson saw a mural of black people
associated with his school. He got inspiration
from that to draw a painting of Wallace
A. Rayfield, who is the first black Architect
in Alabama who broke racial barriers.

Rayfield also had the entrepreneurial skills
that gave him the opportunity to have
several practices around the country.

Wilson, who drew the picture of the
Architect graduated A.H Parker
High School in Birmingham and is
now attending Architecture school
at Auburn. This was because of a
firm that has helped to put
black people in a field where
their numbers are few for 2 decades.

20% of the 50 members of the Birmingham
based Giattina fisher Aycock
Architects Inc are black.

Alabama is the birthplace of modern
architectural design for black people.
24 of the 774 architects registered
in the state are black people says
the Alabama Board of Architects.

My comment:
That is great to know. I would hope
more black architects get word of
this . But maybe they will after
I include this in my blog. I think so.

Aptitude and desire gets GFA to
get behind them in putting them
through architecture school
with scholarships as well as
intern work.

GFA has helped more than 20 blacks
study architecture at colleges such
as Auburn University, Mississippi
State University, Tuskegee University,
Notre Dame and Southern University
in Baton Rouge, LA.

The site I found this information on is:

http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/050522/birmingham.shtml

More black architects need to be
shown. They need to put it out
there in k-12 schools too. After
all its good to start off really
young knowing what you want to do
so you can get used to it. But
any time is still good as long
as you do your thing.