--- title: Five Best: How One Black Architect Is Transforming the Field description: How one black architect is working to transform that majority white field, this is how we chart the future of the MBA and more. canonical: https://time.com/4759251/how-one-black-architect-is-transforming-the-field/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-28T16:00:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:53.893Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How One Black Architect Is Transforming the Field og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4759251/how-one-black-architect-is-transforming-the-field/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How One Black Architect Is Transforming the Field twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How One Black Architect Is Transforming the Field by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 28, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 28, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how one black architect is working to transform that majority white field.**](http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2017/04/designer%5Fmichael%5Fford%5Flaunches.html) By Steven Litt in the _Cleveland Plain Dealer_ **2\.** [**This is how we chart the future of the MBA.**](https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-future-of-the-mba-in-3-questions/) By Claire Preisser at the _Aspen Institute Business and Society Program_ **3\.** [**What actually happens if we pull out of NAFTA?**](https://qz.com/969953/what-would-happen-if-trump-pulls-out-of-nafta/) By Ana Campoy in _Quartz_ **4\.** [**We need to look at how we nominate presidents.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/04/27/how-we-nominate-presidents/) By Christine Stenglein at the _Brookings Institution_ **5\.** [**What if everything we know about sweatshops is wrong?**](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opinion/do-sweatshops-lift-workers-out-of-poverty.html?%5Fr=0) By Christopher Blattman and Stefan Dercon in the _New York Times_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4759251/how-one-black-architect-is-transforming-the-field/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4759251/how-one-black-architect-is-transforming-the-field/"},"headline":"How One Black Architect Is Transforming the Field","datePublished":"2017-04-28T16:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:53.893Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4759251/how-one-black-architect-is-transforming-the-field/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Presidents","architecture","Clothing","NAFTA","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4759251/how-one-black-architect-is-transforming-the-field/","name":"How One Black Architect Is Transforming the Field"}}]}] ```