…While thousands of 2018 AIA Conference on Architecture attendees walked the expo floor and attended sessions, approximately 100 men and women in architecture and design gathered on the corner of 11th Avenue and West 34th Street as part of the Voices of Plurality Flash Mob to call attention to issues of equality, equity, and inclusivity in the architecture profession.
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Eventually, the organizing group also came to include A.L. Hu, a queer, nonbinary architectural designer at Solomonoff Architecture Studio in New York City; Julia Murphy, AIA, associate director at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s New York office; Pascale Sablan, AIA, senior associate at S9 Architecture and a recipient of the 2018 AIA Young Architects Award; and Roberta Washington, FAIA, former president of the National Organization of Minority Architects and founder of Harlem, New York-based Roberta Washington Architects.
Together, the women planned the event where they read a collaborative manifesto, attendees wielded white fans, and chanted, “This is what a feminist looks like.”