{"id":1945,"date":"2018-11-06T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2018-11-06T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:08:14","slug":"architecture-alumni-changing-the-world-one-project-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2018\/11\/06\/architecture-alumni-changing-the-world-one-project-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture alumni changing the world, one project at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Detroit Mercy Architecture alumni are getting noticed for the way they look at design, one locally and one on the national level.<\/p>\n

Chandra Moore ’02, ’05, is one of a very small group of African-American female architects. She is making a name for her Detroit-based company coG studio LLC, which will soon have offices in Atlanta. She sees her uniqueness in the field as an asset that inspires her designs.<\/p>\n

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Chandra Moore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“This is a good time to be a woman architect,” she told a reporter for a story in Model D, an online news outlet about all things Detroit. “The world is changing right now, and women are ready to take charge, to re-evaluate even the simple thoughts. When it comes to designing bathrooms, a guy thinks of an in-and-out experience while a woman would feel into the space and make it her own.”<\/p>\n

Read the entire Model D story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the national level, Michael Ford ’06, was featured in a video for the Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN, for his design philosophy that has earned him the nickname the\u00a0Hip-Hop Architect. Detroit Mercy hosted his Hip Hop Architecture Camp<\/a> in 2017, a national movement to bring a new voice and life to designing spaces.<\/p>\n

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Michael Ford, at his Hip Hop Architecture Camp at Detroit Mercy in 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We hear some of the lyrics in hip hop and I challenge everybody to listen to the stories that they’re telling,” Ford says in the video that is part of OWN’s Supersoul<\/em> series. “The stories they are telling are a critique of the environment that they’re living in. So when you hear someone talking about guns or drugs, instead of changing the station, we should be changing those environments.”<\/p>\n

Watch the short video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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