Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, senior associate at Adjaye Associates, has been on the team for a variety of mixed-use, commercial, cultural, and residential projects in the U.S., Saudi Arabia, India, and UAE. Pascale is the 315th living African American female architect in the U.S. Pascale has given lectures at institutions, such as the National Museum of African American History & Culture and the United Nations Visitor Centre. She has lectured and engaged students at universities and colleges all over the nation.

She is the founder and executive director of Beyond the Built Environment (BBE), positioned to uniquely address the inequitable disparities in architecture by providing a holistic platform aimed to support numerous stages of the architecture pipeline. BBE elevates the identities and contributions of women and BIPOC designers through exhibitions, curated lectures, and documentaries that testify to the provided value of their built work and its spatial impact.

She has been recognized for her contributions to the industry with several awards, including the prestigious 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award for her advocacy efforts and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows, the youngest African American to receive that honor in 165 years. In 2020, Pascale was voted President-Elect of the National Organization of Minority Architects, the fifth woman to hold this position of leadership in the organization’s 50-year legacy.

Pascale holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University.