Eight lesser-known gems of modernist architecture – all by African American architects and designers – have been offered a new lifeline in the form of $3.1 million of funding from the Conserving Black Modernism initiative, backed by the Getty Foundation.
The buildings – spanning from the self-designed 1961 home of Robert T Coles, the first African American Chancellor of the American Institute of Architects, in Buffalo, NY, to a 1960 mosque in Washington, DC, designed by David R Byrd – will benefit from conservation planning and repairs, and enhanced skills training for those who look after them.
