Nov 14 2022
"HIGHER CALLING" - Sara Timberlake
Sara is a Detroit-based architectural designer, educator, mentor and theorist. She currently works at Quinn Evans, an architectural firm where she works at the intersection of design, planning, and community engagement in order to bring her clients’ visions to life and collaborate with project communities. Outside of her professional pursuits, she is the Youth Outreach chair for NOMA National, where she has led Project Pipeline - a free, five-day youth architecture camp - for the past 4 years. She is also engaged with her research “Call and Response: Speculation of a Future Typology for the Black Church”, which aims to clarify a design language to the historic American Black Church, while proposing a building typology for the Black Church in this current moment. 5 favorite projectsWoodbridge Neighborhood & Design Guidelines - Woodbridge, Detroit, MI [Quinn Evans] Allied Media LOVE Building - Woodbridge, Detroit, MI [Quinn Evans] Mosaic Eastern Market - Eastern Market, Detroit, MI [Quinn Evans]Michigan Architecture Prep Program - Detroit, MI [UM TCAUP/Michigan-Mellon Fellowship] Dyett High School - Washington Park, Chicago, IL [Brook Architecture]Detroit City of Design Spotlight20th Century Civil Rights Sites (Michigan)Second Baptist Church – DetroitBethel AME Church – DetroitAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (denomination)Shrine of the Black Madonna – DetroitNew Bethel Baptist Church - DetroitThe Black Church, PBSNation of Islam Mosque No. 1Donald White, Michigan's first licensed black architect, broke new ground – Michigan RadioShow Topic LinksNational Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) and NOMA: Baseline On BelongingUniversity of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban PlanningNOMAS Student Design...