The American Midwest has been shaking up the world of architecture. Exciting young studios are approaching design with bold ideas for a better future for our built environment, in the US and beyond. Through a series of profiles in our Next Generation s...
The American Midwest has been shaking up the world of architecture. Exciting young studios are approaching design with bold ideas for a better future for our built environment, in the US and beyond. Through a series of profiles in our Next Generation series, we explore how each of ten practices is pioneering change. Meet Michael FordMichael Ford is a busy man.
The camp is an initiative of Muundo Inc, a Wisconsin-based non-profit organisation that Ford started in 2016 , and it’s an exciting, refreshing and an important project. Its programme is 100 per cent free for all who take part and encompasses a paid internship scheme that places top camp participants in architecture and design firms across the globe. The Robey‘My work is defined by my love of Black music.
He continues: ‘My work extracts the rhythms, patterns, textures, and structures which are unique to the elements of hip hop culture and converts them to architectural rhythms, patterns, textures and structures.’His work, Ford reiterates, is centred on social justice and the built environment, striving to challenge the standard approaches to architecture and design – and drawing parallels between those and music.
‘Architecture lacks diversity. Less than three per cent of licensed architects in the United States are African American! How will architecture look and what impact can we have if we have more practitioners of colour? That’s a question I constantly ask myself,’ he says. Ford’s voice is powerful and his energy seemingly endless.
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