GRIOTS REPUBLIC - AN URBAN BLACK TRAVEL MAG - OCTOBER 2016
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
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chitects (AIA) elected her as their first<br />
black woman fellow, the organization’s<br />
highest honor. Spending most of her career<br />
working with Gruen Associates and<br />
Welton Beckett Associates, she eventually<br />
became the first black woman to<br />
start her own architectural firm. Siegel-Sklarek-Diamond<br />
opened in 1985<br />
and was the largest woman-owned and<br />
mostly woman-staffed architectural<br />
firm in the United States.<br />
“She was excellent at putting the whole<br />
package together,” said Marshall Purnell,<br />
a past president of the American<br />
Institute of Architects. But, because of<br />
race, Sklarek often had to take a backseat<br />
in designing.<br />
It was the 1950s, and although she was<br />
highly capable according to her employers<br />
and colleagues, “it was unheard<br />
of to have an African American female<br />
who was registered as an architect. You<br />
didn’t trot that person out in front of<br />
your clients and say ‘This is the person<br />
designing your project.’ She was not allowed<br />
to express herself as a designer.<br />
But she was capable of doing anything.<br />
She was the complete architect.”<br />
Despite those stigmas and setbacks, Sklarek<br />
was known for handling complex<br />
buildings on time and under budget.<br />
Ahead of her time and current software<br />
capabilities, Kate Diamond, a partner<br />
in Siegel-Sklarek-Diamond said, “She<br />
could see three-dimensionally-understanding<br />
how things fit together.”<br />
Now, 60 years later, Sklarek’s work still<br />
stands. A recent $508 million renovation<br />
project is underway to modernize<br />
LAX’s terminal 1 and build upon her