Building Up Diversity in the Architecture Collection

As the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture (SOA) works to shift conventional assumptions about what architecture is and what an architect does to ideas that are more inclusive and equitable, it partners with the University Libraries to ensure content is increasingly reflective of diverse communities. New additions to the architecture collection in Hunt Library include titles such as " Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial " and " Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. " The arrival of the books is a sign of important changes happening in the SoA. The School of Architecture is reviewing its mission, values, and programs and developing an actionable vision that can address some of the significant challenges facing architecture and the built environment in the 21st century. This strategic planning process, called Pedagogies 2020 , contains three interrelated pedagogies, including Race and Inclusion, Fundamentals, and Design Research. The Race and Inclusion pedagogy seeks to address the role architecture can play in creating more equitable, inclusive and just communities at every scale in the school, at CMU, in Pittsburgh neighborhoods, the region and the world. "Being a global university and working in a field that must address every person of every identity and class, we need to do better at making our field more accessible," said Kai Gutschow , associate professor of architecture and associate head of design ethics.