Black Women in Architecture Network
for and by Black women in architecture.
Join us to connect and uplift Black Women in Architecture at the 2024 BWA Brunch.
Organized in 13 cities around the US, we will join simultaneously. Then break for in-person networking and brunch.
Participate in a location of your choice or join in the virtual program from wherever you are.
Go to the main event page for information.
Save the Date
September 18, 2022
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Event proceeds benefit the
Desiree Cooper Memorial ARE Scholarship.
The 2021 BWA Brunch was an amazing gathering of over 60+ Black women architects and supporters. We held a virtual program and had some wonderful firms and individuals that hosted in-person watch parties.
First-time BWA Brunch attendee, Linda Clark, wrote the following recap and perspective of the 2021 BWA Brunch.
Black Women in Architecture Brunch 2021
Linda Clark
Throughout my educational and professional career in the building industry, I have always been a minority, and in most cases one of two, but more commonly the only black woman in my architecture classes or firms. So being able to join a community of other black woman architects connecting over shared experiences and a common mission to help create more representation and exposure in the architectural community is an invaluable experience. I was honored to share this experience with so many black woman architects, locally in the DC area, but also nationally with the virtual platform that was used this year.
We are currently working to plan the
2021 Black Women in Architecture Brunch.
Save the date for October 24, 2021 for our Virtual+ event.
Learn more about the event HERE.
We look forward to networking with you in the fall.
Black women in architecture gathered for Sixth Annual Event in Washington DC
Washington, DC – On October 18, 2020, over 100 black women and other architecture professionals gathered for what has become an annual networking event. The event was virtual this year with women attending from across the country.
Organized by a team of volunteers, this annual event is an opportunity for black women to gather and network with each other to foster working relationships, build future partnerships and support each other. In the profession, black women make-up only 0.4% (497) of the over 116,000 licensed architects in the United States. The event serves to connect women who could easily be working in environments where they rarely see another black woman.
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Registration is now open for the
2020 Black Women in Architecture Brunch.
Visit event website for details.
Join Us!
Join over 40 women at the 2019 Black Women in Architecture Brunch. This year’s event will be September 21. We are again partnering with the Architects Foundation to hold the event at the Octagon House.
Event proceeds go to the Desiree Cooper ARE Scholarship. You can donate here.
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September 2018 BWA Brunch
This year’s brunch partners will be the Architects Foundation and BlackSpace. Architects Foundation have generously offered the Octagon House as a venue for this year’s event. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the historic house as well as view the exhibit: 50 Years After Whitney Young Jr. The exhibit shares Young’s life, the circumstances leading to his speech at the 1968 AIA National Convention, the creation of the award, and the award recipients.
Additionally, members of BlackSpace will be welcoming all Black urbanists in the 11:00 – 1:00 hours in celebration of the Shifting the Landscape covenings. BlackSpace is a Black urbanist collective that demands a present and future where Black people, Black spaces, and Black culture matter and thrive.
Purchase tickets here.
Event Agenda
9:45 doors open
10 – 11:00 women only networking, exhibit open
10:45 – women in arch photo, BWA Network introduction
11:00 brunch served,open to Blackspace members
11:45 Blackspace introduction
12:15 wrap up
1:00 Museum opens to public
Purchase tickets here.
Help support the event. Become a BWA 2018 Sponsor.
Thank you to current sponsors
Last summer, I got this crazy idea that I could gather a room full of black women architects to network and just meet each other. The idea was cemented in my mind after a conversation with a local colleague.
I started out with a list of 25 women. I asked them to send me names and emails to add the list. By the day of the actual event, I had sent emails to over 65 women. I had forty attendees including a couple of New Yorkers who came down to attend. I was amazed, and a felt a little like I was watching a giant snow ball roll down a hill building momentum.