We hope that this directory will enjoy many uses. Our aim is to help broaden networks for those listed and open up opportunities for joint professional ventures. We hope that this directory might create additional opportunities for architects to join together to advise young men and women who express interest in the profession, whether they are contemplating a career in architecture or preparing for their registration examination. We hope that this directory will allow people to share a wide range of professional experiences. Not least, we hope this directory will reunite people who have lost contact with one another.
Our aim is captured in a Progressive Architecture editorial: "One of the critical problems discussed (at the 1990 NOMA Conference in Detroit) .... was visibility. If black students and their families hardly ever hear of a black architect, the most promising young people are unlikely to look to architecture as a career; if the designs and writings of black faculty members are rarely published, their chances for advancement or influence are reduced; if clients rarely see or hear of a black architect, black architects are not going to have the credibility they need."5 We hope that this directory will help to alleviate these problems. In the end, we hope that it will increase the number of African Americans who choose architecture as a career.
This roster will be available from the Center for the Study of the Practice. We will not use it for any commercial purposes. We will use it as a database for ongoing research, designed to benefit members of the African American architectural community as well as the architectural community as a whole. This research is part of the charge of the Center to "foster intellectual commerce between educators and practitioners".
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The Directories of Diverse Architects and Designers is the child of the Directory of African-American Architects, and is a project of NOMA, the National Organization of Minority Architects. The DDAD's goal is to catalog, educate and enlighten.
