African-American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865?EUR??,,????'???1945, is edited by Landscape Architect Dreck Spurlock Wilson.

 

On March 11, the Cleveland Restoration Society partnered with the Western Reserve Historical Society and the American Institute of Architects?EUR??,,????'???Cleveland to host a discussion with Dreck Spurlock Wilson, a Washington, D.C., landscape architect and editor of African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865?EUR??,,????'???1945 (Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.).

One-hundred and fifteen authors contributed to the 550-page book, which contains 168 entries on important black architects and historically black schools of architecture. Booklist and other reviewers say there is nothing comparable to this work and that it?EUR??,,????'???s especially pertinent for college and university libraries with architectural programs, preservationists, architects and historians.