Janelle Brookes and Ethan Perrotte

POC Architecture General Information


Who we are & our mission


(all our main talking points) 


 


We are a couple of black architecture students from Canada. We
created this page to showcase architecture projects done by
people of colour. During the course of our education, we noticed
a lack of architecture projects from people of colour being
taught. As a result, this page was created to promote diversity
in the field of architecture. 


 


As black architecture students we found it difficult to find a
role model and motivation when we rarely learned about black
architects or other architects of colour on a daily basis. We
believe it does the next generation of architects a disservice if
they do not learn diverse perspectives of design and experiences
from people of colour in the industry. There are architects of
colour doing great work however they are highly under-represented
in the profession. This is a problem because students and
professionals definitely need a more expanded/global
understanding of design. It would ultimately help them create
sustainable and successful architecture all over the world. We
encourage everyone to contact their school or speak with their
colleagues at work about the lack of diversity in the
architecture profession. We challenge architecture schools to
diversify their case studies and include more work from people of
colour. We also call upon architecture firms to reevaluate the
amount of diversity in their organization. 


 


We showcase work from architecture students, professionals etc.
and multiple mediums of work are encouraged.If you are a person
of colour and would like your architectural work to be featured
on our Instagram page “POC_Arch”, please email us at
pocarch@gmail.com or direct message us for further
inquiries.