Pascale Sablan

Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, is an architect at Adjaye Associates. With more than 14 years of experience, she has designed for a variety of projects around the world. Sablan is the 315th living African-American woman registered architect in the U.S. As an activist architect, she works to advance her discipline for the betterment of society, bringing visibility and voice to issues concerning women and BIPOC designers. She founded the Beyond the Built Environment organization to address the inequitable disparities in her field. Sablan has been quoted in The New York Times regarding her efforts, and Forbes magazine describes her as “the powerhouse woman actively changing history with a simple mission: women and designers of color must claim and be credited for their contributions to the built environment."

In 2020 Sablan was voted president-elect of the National Organization of Minority Architects, the fifth woman to hold this position in the organization's 50-year legacy. She was awarded the Architectural League 2021 Emerging Voices Award and the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award for her advocacy efforts and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows, the youngest African American to reach that honor in the organization's 164-year history. Sablan has given lectures at colleges and universities across the country and at cultural institutions such as the United Nations and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.