2024-11-23T18:19:20-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150209245/leading-architects-donate-creative-works-to-support-racial-justice Sean Joyner 2020-07-29T18:07:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/62/62e6cb804a6eb42fa785f97a03aa3d37.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Launched July 1st by a group of students and alumni from the <a href="https://archinect.com/harvard" target="_blank">Harvard GSD</a>,&nbsp;<em></em><em><a href="https://www.designyardsale.org/" target="_blank">Design Yard Sale</a> </em>is a month-long fundraising event that "sells and auctions creative works to support [<em>Colloqate Design</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Bail Project],</em>&nbsp;two organizations fighting systemic, and anti-Black racism." Creative works by people like <a href="https://archinect.com/gehry" target="_blank">Frank Gehry</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/8368/billie-tsien" target="_blank">Billie Tsien</a>, and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/262701/denise-scott-brown" target="_blank">Denise Scott Brown</a> have been donated to the effort and are available for auction. The pursuit has already raised over $80,000 and has a goal od reaching $100,00 by the end of the month.</p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cc/ccfe31b6bfa5b9f51cf8c2054071f6b0.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cc/ccfe31b6bfa5b9f51cf8c2054071f6b0.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Frank Gehry, Beekman Street Housing print.</figcaption></figure></figure><p>Some highlights of items up for auction include blueprints of Robert Venturi&rsquo;s Vanna Venturi House, donated by Venturi&rsquo;s longtime engineering partner, Keast &amp; Hood. Additional objects include a collage by Tsien, signed prints of Scott Brown&rsquo;s historic 1960s-era photos of Las Vegas exclusive to Design Yard Sale, a concrete stool by Jerome Byron, and a limited-edition signed lithograph of a Gehry drawing.&nbsp;</p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/61/61df214d6d13035222e3476a2ee555ea.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/61/61df214d6d13035222e3476a2ee555ea.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Jerome Byron, Concrete...</figcaption></figure></figure>