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The 2024 Hip Hop
Architecture Scholarship
Known as the "Hip Hop Architect”, Michael Ford, AIA, NOMA, believes
that one way to make architecture more available to young people from
underrepresented communities and to therefore make the profession
more diverse is to use the language and rhythms of Hip Hop as a way
to see, understand, and describe the built environment. Since 2021,
Bergmeyer has awarded an annual Hip Hop Architecture Scholarship an opportunity for a college-bound architecture student to experience a
one-week paid internship in our Boston o昀케ce. The 2024 recipient of the
HHAC x Bergmeyer scholarship/internship program was Iyana Benjamin,
who is now in her second semester at Pratt Institute in New York.
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