David Adjaye's gold sketch of multifaith complex The Abrahamic Family House and Mark Foster Gage's satirical plan for a Trump presidential library are among works for sale in an auction fundraising to support black women in architecture school.
Organised by architectural initiative ARCH, the auction launches today and will run for one week to raise funds for a scholarship programme for black women.
"To tackle systemic racism in the field of architecture and design, we need to make studying these subjects more accessible to aspiring black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) architects, who have historically been underrepresented and under-supported," said ARCH, which stands for Architecture for Change.
Top: David Adjaye's sketch of The Abrahamic Family House. Above: Daniel Libeskind's drawing of the Jewish Museum is in the auction Nearly 70 architects and designers have donated architectural works to the auction including Daniel Libeskind, Hector Esrawe, Jennifer Bonner, David Rockwell, Jerome Byron, Sean Griffiths and Perry Kulper.
Among the items for sale is American-Polish architect Libeskind's charcoal sketch of his Jewish Museum in Berlin, which composed of a print with a hand drawing on top.
Also up for auction is Adjaye's drawing of The Abrahamic Family House realised in 24-karat gold leaf, and research agency Forensic Architecture's image of its Triple-Chaser project, which used machine learning to verify objects in human rights violations such as tear...