A new £1 million initiative from the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and leading 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 channelling 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.
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RMJM
RMJM is a UK-based, international firm of architects, employing 1200 people across its network of 15 offices in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and the United States. RMJM’s expertise and design-led approach is successfully demonstrated in on-going projects in more than 15 countries spanning a wide range of key sectors, from corporate headquarters and waterfront residential developments to major public buildings, university campuses and large-scale regeneration programmes. The company currently has £10 billion worth of construction projects on its drawing boards, including some of the world’s most high profile and ambitious projects, including the tallest building in Europe for Gazprom in St Petersburg and the biggest ever media centre at the Beijing Olympic Games.
