Pascale Sablan
American architect
Pascale Sablan (born 1983) is an American architect and designer. She is the CEO at Adjaye Associates, New York Studio and became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2021. Sablan advocates on behalf of women and BIPOC people in architecture as the founder and executive director of Beyond the Built Environment. She previously worked for FXFOWLE (now FXCollaborative) and S9 Architecture.
Sablan has served as the historian and president of the National Organization of Minority Architects. In 2024 Sablan was inducted into the NOMA Council, one of the highest honors to reach in the organization. She received the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award from the American Institute of Architects in 2021. Projects that she has contributed to include the Ancestral Chamber of the African Burial Ground National Monument, schools in Haiti, and the Bronx Point Project which includes the Universal Hip Hop Museum. She earned architectural degrees from Columbia University and the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
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