November 11, 2003
Joseph Edgecombe,
FACTS Communications & Design R&D Center/Association
408 Seaver Street,
Boston MA 02121
Attn. NCARB: Mr.
Robert Rosenfeld and The Executive Director:
Re: Professional,
Public and Community Services - Form 112-2 at Bottom (& others)
Community Development
Justice – Solutions not just Services
Needed - Cause Oriented Architects
/ Afro-American -Minority Architects-Solutions
setting the trend
for all architects. Community Development Justice – Solutions not just Services
Technically
speaking this recommendation should be top priority.
Firstly,
Black-Afro/African-American and minority architectural professionals are faced with an enormous amount of community (and world)
development responsibilities, and to record these activities would give justice to the majority of time spent and allocated
to bring about economic community change and development for the betterment of communities (or the architecture of communities/matrix
of development/communication).
Attached
is my new proposal for what I term as “Needed Architectural Communications / Community (Cause) Service (Professional,
Public & Community Services) requirement.
This revised
form would be one page form or a form divided into 4 sections for describing different activities or different types of community
participation.
Communication
affects the local, national and world community (architecturally) socially, economically, culturally, ethically, politically
and historically and therefore as the resultant architecturally.
Surmising
that in order to bring about better professional, public and community communication, we as a country and world nation are
in need of ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS as a major part of architectural skills for the betterment of social - public
and community development purposes.
I
have always been the leading model and scholar in my academic life and I still aspire to maintain my position as the leading
world / architectural scholar. Therefore I wish to make NEEDED / Cause Oriented Architectural Communications (Community /
Development Justice) an important asset and requirement for NCARB Certification.
This
would assist and differentiate architects and young aspiring architects goals and initiatives and help convey a commitment
to the real practice of architecture, which is community justice (in the business, public, private,
community environment), and therefore breakdown the negative stereotypes that exist, dominate and are prevalent in the
architectural field today and well as historically. This would also help convey a message to the educational community and
public at large that architecture is not a field of get rich quick scheme based professionals witch drills people, businesses
and organizations for money to satisfy profiteering based or corrupt initiatives – such as (the high price of) architectural
design/planning services, design without concern or design for self grandeur or glorification etc.).
Negative
architectural stereotypes are ruining the progressive development initiatives of the Black-Afro/African-American architectural
community / marketplace out of business and out of public admiration.
I
would emphasize the positive and emphasize that the duty of Architects are Advocates of meeting the NEEDS of all the
communities and are not just profiteers, they provide genuine solutions address not just services. By making my proposed
and required page one page long this will be.
Provided
is my resume for the model which I have constructed for this initiative.
Joseph C. Edgecombe,
Model/Architectural Scholar-Designer
