Black architects and designers of the Northwest celebrated in new MOHAI exhibit

On Saturday, a new exhibit will open at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry.

"From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers" is a traveling show, originally created for Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. The exhibit has been updated to represent local, Black architects, like Benjamin F. McAdoo Jr., the first Black architect registered in Washington state.

"It's recognizing not just Pacific Northwest, but across the country and across the world, the contributions of Black architects who are innovators," said Hasaan Kirkland, consultant and curator of the exhibit. "And how we live and why we live around these buildings that are these kind of marks across the country about who we are as a people. This exhibit helps to kind of acknowledge the contributions of Black architects."