"Architecture for Everyone" Initiative Launched in the UK

A new £1 million initiative from the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and UK-based architecture company RMJM, aims to transform some of Britain’s most deprived inner city areas “from the inside out” by encouraging more young people from Black and ethnic minorities to become architects and to send the most promising to the design school at Harvard in Boston, one of the best regarded in the world.

The ‘Architecture for Everyone’ campaign will uncover and support new architectural talent by delivering workshops in inner city Britain that will help to engage and inspire young people around new ways of channeling creativity. For example, it is hoped that young people who pride themselves on their street art will be inspired by understanding how they can have a wider impact on their urban space by re-directing their artistic leanings to architecture and design. The workshops will enable young people to meet senior architects who are responsible for designing some of the world’s most high profile buildings and to develop real links and progression routes into the industry.

For further information visit: www.architectureforeveryone.org.uk.