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The story of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center began over 20 years ago when a small band of community leaders in Pittsburgh decided to pursue the notion of a single African American arts facility located in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. They envisioned this facility to be a place where all people from the ...
The August Wilson Center was designed under the direction of Allison G. Williams, FAIA and members of her team from her San Francisco office of Perkins and Will. During the design of this project, AI merged with MBT Architecture and then was subsequently bought by Perkins+Will.
SIZE. 25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft. In an invited competition, we were awarded the commission to. design the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. This civic. building, a landmark for Pittsburgh and a world-class icon for the. institution, stands as the armature, backbone and backdrop to the. complex stories of African American ...
Jul 5, 2019 · One of dozens of examples of exemplary public art and architecture, some old, some new, in the venerable "Steel City" of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is theAugust Wilson Center for African American Culture, designed by Allison Williams of Perkins-Will Architects. Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Allegheny County United States, 2019. -07-05.
- Robert Robinson Taylor
- Julian Abele
- Vertner Woodson Tandy
- Paul Revere Williams
- Norma Merrick Sklarek
- Moses Mckissack III
- Beverly Loraine Greene
- Clarence Wesley ‘Cap’ Wigington
- Allison Williams
- Roberta Washington
Robert Robinson Taylor was the first academically trained and credentialed black architect in America. He grew up in North Carolina where he worked as a carpenter and foreman for his father, Henry Taylor, who was a former slave. Taylor attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, becoming the school’s first black graduate. While a student, h...
Julian Abele was the first black graduate of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He spent his entire career as the chief designer at the Philadelphia firm led by Gilded Age architect, Horace Trumbauer. Abele was working for Trumbauer when they received a commission to expand the campus of Duke University, a whites-only instituti...
Vertner Woodson Tandy is a lot of firsts. He was the first registered black architect in New York State, the first black architect to belong to the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the first black man to pass the military commissioning exam. Tandy, while attending Cornell University, was also a founding member of the nation’s oldest Afri...
One of the most well-known black architects, Paul Revere Williams’ 50-year career and over 2,000-designed homes has played a major role in shaping Southern California’s signature architectural style. His work is distinguished by a mix of styles and types, from hotels and restaurants to churches and hospitals. Williams studied architecture at the Be...
Norma Merrick Sklarek was the first major African-American woman architect, a true trailblazer. Her best-known projects, including Terminal One at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the Pacific Design Center, reveal an idiosyncratic sense of line and color. Sklarek once illuminated the challenges she faced entering the profession, sayi...
The grandsons of a trained builder and African-born slave, Moses McKissack III and his brother Calvin became the first and second (respectively) black architects licensed in their home state of Tennessee in 1922. Together, they formed McKissack and McKissack, the nation’s first black-owned architecture firm, and the oldest still in operation today....
Architect, engineer, and urban planner Beverly Loraine Greene became the first black female architect licensed in the United States, in Illinois, in 1942. She started her career in Chicago with the Chicago Housing Authority, but moved to New York City, as a result of racial prejudice and a subsequent lack of work. In New York, she worked on the Stu...
Clarence W. ‘Cap’ Wigington was the first registered black architect in Minnesota and the first black municipal architect in the United States. Wigington was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, which is where he developed his architecture skills. He served as an apprentice under Thomas Kimball, a renowned local architect and future AIA president. Wigington ...
Over the course of her decades-long career, Allison Williams has worked on many major projects at some of the world’s most high-profile firms, including San Francisco’s Perkins+Will and AECOM, where she currently serves as the Design Director. Her best-known buildings, including the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, i...
Established in 1983, Washington’s firm is driven by an architectural approach guided by choice in how we live, learn, heal and connect the past to the future. Working on projects that range from affordable housing, educational, cultural and healthcare, Roberta Washington Architectsis one of the few African-American, women-owned architectural firms ...
A ugust Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape is a 3,600-square-foot permanent exhibition located in the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC), conveniently located in the Culutral District of Downtown Pittsburgh. takes a deep dive into Wilson’s life, including a window into Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where he was born and ...
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Feb 22, 2014 · The August Wilson Center for African American Culture was meant to be a hub for African-American theater, art and education, named after renowned playwright and native son August Wilson. Today the ...
