2022 Bergmeyer Corporate Social Responsibility Report - Flipbook - Page 9
The 2022 Hip Hop
Architecture Scholarship
Bergmeyer | 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
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 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. To advance this
mission, Mike runs a national series of week-long design workshops
called the Hip Hop Architecture Camp that “positions Hip Hop culture
as a catalyst to introduce underrepresented youth to architecture,
urban planning, and design.”
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Bergmeyer has been a financial supporter of the Hip Hop Architecture
Camp (HHAC) since 2020. In 2021, we stepped it up by creating and
launching the first Hip Hop Architecture Scholarship – an annual
opportunity for a college-bound architecture student to experience a
one-week paid internship in our Boston office. The 2022 recipient of
the HHAC x Bergmeyer scholarship/internship program was Jordan
Nance of Memphis, TN—a senior at Germantown High School in 2022.
Jordan spent a week in June 2022 at Bergmeyer working on a prototype
affordable housing unit and learning about our collaborative approach
to design. Jordan is currently in his first year at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)‘s College of Architecture.
