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The school also partners with other domestic and international universities and institutions. He is the former Chairperson and Endowed University Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture at Hampton University, Hampton, VA. He received his Master’s degree in Architecture with a focus on social and cultural factors from the University of California at Berkeley. A registered architect, Mr. Grant has extensive experience in housing and community design through his research, teaching and architecture practice as principal of the architecture firm AGWA Architects, Hampton, VA. His research on cultural environmental design practice can be found in his work titled “Accommodation, Resistance and Appropriation in African American Building,” in Craig Barton’s Sites of Memory (Princeton Press, 2000) and in the Directory of African American Architects/Survey of African American Architects, co authored by Dennis Mann (University of Cincinnati, 3rd edition). |
Founded in 1867, Howard University’s School of Architecture and Design [http://www.howard.edu/ceacs/Departments/Architecture/index.html] offers a 5-year bachelors of Architecture degree. The Department believes “that architecture and design is essentially a rigorous act of creativity research and scholarship and encourages a pluralistic intellectual environment in which diverse ideas can be investigated and tested.” The annual Carnegie Mellon University partnership with the School includes a special 6-week Minority Internship Design Program to address diversity and minority recruitment for graduate studies and community service design projects. For a look at a recent African American Cultural Center developed by Howard students, 