Amy Van de Riet awarded KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Award

Architecture lecturer Amy Van de Riet was among 10 winners of the inaugural KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Awards co-sponsored by The University of Kansas Center for Research and the Hall Center for the Humanities. 
 
Van de Riet will lead a project to document the work of Charles McAfee, a talented Black architect who practiced in Wichita beginning in 1963. His work won many awards, but he could never overcome the racial barriers obstructing the expansion of his work in the ’60s and ’70s. Today, his buildings are in danger of demolition. 
 
The project will record all of McAfee’s remaining buildings/structures in the Kansas Historic Resource Inventory with proper recognition of him as the architect; create measured drawings, history and photos to fully document one of those buildings; and ensure this documentation is housed in the The Library of Congress with similar building documentation. 

Read more about the KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Awards HERE.