
STAND UP AND STAND OUT
FROM THE MAY 2020 ISSUE OF
One day, Pascale Sablan sat down at her computer and googled the phrase “great architects.” Dozens of architects’ names appeared on the screen, and to her surprise, very few of them looked like her. “There was one woman—Zaha Hadid—and nine people of color,” says Sablan, an architect at S9 Architecture in New York. Hadid, holding two boats, also accounted for one of those nine.
In that moment Sablan was concerned for kids, because when kids hear about something they m