Lay of the Land

The third session of NYU DC's Chocolate City series "Lay of the Land" focused on Black space. Featured speaker Professor Melvin L. Mitchell  discussed how Black history, culture, and identity are ingrained in the physical places and spaces that comprise the Nation’s Capital today.

Melvin L. Mitchell has been a practicing architect in Washington, DC, for forty-five years. He is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects, a past president of the DC Board of Architecture, and former director, the Institute (now School) of Architecture & Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore (1997–2002). He was a professor at the University of the District of Columbia (1986–1994, 2003–2014); and James E. Silcott Professor of Architecture at Howard University (2016–2018). His architecture degrees are from Howard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.