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im so glad you kicked this off A.L.! i responded to your tweet bc i would love to know more queer architects or have some sense of community w/in the bigger one. in addition to being a newsletter, i think it would be cool for this to result in a regular zoom happy hour or other ways for all the rest of us to connect & become familiar, so we will recognize & be able to support one another out in the bigger field.
Thanks for getting the conversation going. I believe that one of my biggest tasks in my career at this point is to help the next generation grow in their careers and I would love nothing more than help make the journey easier for the LGBTQ+ community. easier than it has been for me
hi a.l.! thanks for taking the time to get this going. definitely looking to connect with other queer architects and designers, in whatever capacity that may be!
some things on my mind: i'd love to see more representation for queer humans outside of gay white cis men. i'm in a weird period as far as career things go right now, after finding that a typical 9-5, monday-friday schedule is -really- awful for me, and am trying to find creative opportunities outside of a traditional architecture job.
Thank you as well for getting this started. Excited to see where this leads. Finding community with queer architects and designers is something missing currently. Let's do this. As much as I also have too much Zoom, it would be nice to connect face to face safely. At times I think of the architecture field as innovative and inclusive, it is also a dinosaur and patriarchal.
Hello, I am an architectural historian and artist. I'm glad to be part of this agenda to change the architecture and design community in education and practice.
hi ! Thanks a.l. for starting this community. Loved the first email and thoughts of making a community less about networking more about building relationship. I like the idea of bring queer architects/ designers together more intentionally, as I feel there are many of us interspersed, and coming together brings some sort of cohesion of perspectives perhaps. I'm interested to just hear how you all inhabit and reckon with the culture of architecture and design, and chat maybe via zoom?
I go by she/ they pronouns. I'm working PT as an architectural designer out in the hamptons, PT as an exhibition designer, and slowly carving out some space for a studio practice. I lived in nyc for 12 years and attended school/ worked freelance there, just moved out here at the beginning of 2020 (pre covid). I'm involved / connected to queer cultures outside of architecture thru movement arts/ arts/ and find it super supportive to be amongst queer people. So would be cool to find more of a community in arch / design :) cheers all
Thanks for writing this! I'm in Landscape Architecture, a niche of a niche, and I look forward to seeing more. Frankly I want to have queerer work environments as the professoin is quite close to many other professions that are far 'straighter' than we are. I'm a cis-white-gay man having worked much of my career located outside of big cities (although, often in their gravity well) where I was still the queerest person around. Which is deeply problematic. I always felt there should be more conversations with this stuff so thanks for making this series! Also the queer agenda def involves brunch sooo yeah.
Hey A.L.! I'm lost in the wilderness at the moment. I have a B.S. in architecture, but a series of moral quandaries and mental-health crises leave me in a place where I've spent the last couple years in construction, basically as a carpenter/laborer. I'm trying to get back in the office, cautiously. Great timing on my part, am I right?
I've been getting more involved with tenant organizing, and so a lot of conversations about the actual value of building designers/professionals and the labor that we do are coming in front of my face on a daily basis. And in a particular way, how the commodification of housing adversely affects LGBTQ+ peeps (Black/poc LGBTQ+ people especially). Also how the labor struggles in the office and on site are connected.
I'm so excited to have found this! There is an odd lack of queer representation in the architecture community, at least openly. I know a number of gay architects but there is a "yeah but this doesn't affect my work" malaise; that's to say nothing of other representation (trans, NB, etc).
I'm a practicing (trans)woman architect in the LA area. My work is primarily K-12 and community college based, and I'm passionate about bringing my own experiences to bear when designing for a population that seems to be growing more comfortable with queerness every day. Thanks for putting this together!
Just a note about the comments—you may have to create an account with substack. If you'd like to remain anonymous or incognito, give yourself a username/display name that isn't your real name :)
im so glad you kicked this off A.L.! i responded to your tweet bc i would love to know more queer architects or have some sense of community w/in the bigger one. in addition to being a newsletter, i think it would be cool for this to result in a regular zoom happy hour or other ways for all the rest of us to connect & become familiar, so we will recognize & be able to support one another out in the bigger field.
Thanks for getting the conversation going. I believe that one of my biggest tasks in my career at this point is to help the next generation grow in their careers and I would love nothing more than help make the journey easier for the LGBTQ+ community. easier than it has been for me
hi a.l.! thanks for taking the time to get this going. definitely looking to connect with other queer architects and designers, in whatever capacity that may be!
some things on my mind: i'd love to see more representation for queer humans outside of gay white cis men. i'm in a weird period as far as career things go right now, after finding that a typical 9-5, monday-friday schedule is -really- awful for me, and am trying to find creative opportunities outside of a traditional architecture job.
Thank you as well for getting this started. Excited to see where this leads. Finding community with queer architects and designers is something missing currently. Let's do this. As much as I also have too much Zoom, it would be nice to connect face to face safely. At times I think of the architecture field as innovative and inclusive, it is also a dinosaur and patriarchal.
Hello, I am an architectural historian and artist. I'm glad to be part of this agenda to change the architecture and design community in education and practice.
hi ! Thanks a.l. for starting this community. Loved the first email and thoughts of making a community less about networking more about building relationship. I like the idea of bring queer architects/ designers together more intentionally, as I feel there are many of us interspersed, and coming together brings some sort of cohesion of perspectives perhaps. I'm interested to just hear how you all inhabit and reckon with the culture of architecture and design, and chat maybe via zoom?
I go by she/ they pronouns. I'm working PT as an architectural designer out in the hamptons, PT as an exhibition designer, and slowly carving out some space for a studio practice. I lived in nyc for 12 years and attended school/ worked freelance there, just moved out here at the beginning of 2020 (pre covid). I'm involved / connected to queer cultures outside of architecture thru movement arts/ arts/ and find it super supportive to be amongst queer people. So would be cool to find more of a community in arch / design :) cheers all
Thanks for writing this! I'm in Landscape Architecture, a niche of a niche, and I look forward to seeing more. Frankly I want to have queerer work environments as the professoin is quite close to many other professions that are far 'straighter' than we are. I'm a cis-white-gay man having worked much of my career located outside of big cities (although, often in their gravity well) where I was still the queerest person around. Which is deeply problematic. I always felt there should be more conversations with this stuff so thanks for making this series! Also the queer agenda def involves brunch sooo yeah.
Hey A.L.! I'm lost in the wilderness at the moment. I have a B.S. in architecture, but a series of moral quandaries and mental-health crises leave me in a place where I've spent the last couple years in construction, basically as a carpenter/laborer. I'm trying to get back in the office, cautiously. Great timing on my part, am I right?
I've been getting more involved with tenant organizing, and so a lot of conversations about the actual value of building designers/professionals and the labor that we do are coming in front of my face on a daily basis. And in a particular way, how the commodification of housing adversely affects LGBTQ+ peeps (Black/poc LGBTQ+ people especially). Also how the labor struggles in the office and on site are connected.
I'm so excited to have found this! There is an odd lack of queer representation in the architecture community, at least openly. I know a number of gay architects but there is a "yeah but this doesn't affect my work" malaise; that's to say nothing of other representation (trans, NB, etc).
I'm a practicing (trans)woman architect in the LA area. My work is primarily K-12 and community college based, and I'm passionate about bringing my own experiences to bear when designing for a population that seems to be growing more comfortable with queerness every day. Thanks for putting this together!