Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Irene Hwang, Stephanie Pilat, David Rifkind, Mohammad Gharipour, Carmina Sanchez Del Valle, Carla Jackson Bell, Andrew Chin, Akima Brackeen & McLain Clutter
Mentorship is crucial to the diversification, growth, and agency of the discipline and profession of architecture. If we compare yearly enrollment in architecture (about 8000) to that of other learned professions such as law or medicine (in the tens of thousands), the cumulative impact in each discipline is staggering: by 2020 there were ~120,000 registered architects in the United States; 1.33 million lawyers; 1 million physicians. Although a simplification, the implication is that our capacity to serve society through the built environment (architecture) is one-thirteenth our capacity through social justice (law), or one-tenth of our capacity to serve its physical health (medicine). This disparity suggests that architecture’s contribution to a just and healthy world would greatly increase through the growth in the number and diversity of practicing architects.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.70
Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon
ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1
