There was no blueprint for a young Dwayne Dancy to become an architect. He couldn’t draw well and he didn’t know anyone in the profession. When his mom jettisoned him to trade school, he came across architectural drafting. He took to it like water. When
There was no blueprint for a young Dwayne Dancy to become an architect. He couldn’t draw well. He wasn’t great at math. And he didn’t know anyone in the profession. Beyond Dancy’s own childhood limitations, Black architects made up roughly 1% of those licensed when he was a student.
Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox! “I couldn’t draw very well, but I was very good at drafting and at design—putting things together,” said Dancy. “[My] teacher came up and said [I] should really consider doing this. I found out how much they could potentially make. It’s not like that when we get into it, but I found out how much you could potentially make and I [went] for it.”
Dancy is well aware of the racial disparities in the field. But his identity informs his work—one current bluechip project involves designing a waterfront skyscraper in South Carolina’s Atlantic Beach, Myrtle Beach’s “Black Pearl” and historical enclave for the Gullah-Geechee people. Another involves drafting up a Black masonic lodge in New Haven, just a throw’s distance from the hospital Dancy was born in.
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