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Paul R. Williams: Architecture Across the Color Line

The Getty Center · Los Angeles
On view December 15, 2026 to March 14, 2027

Groundbreaking architect Paul R. Williams charted an unprecedented career. The first Black architect licensed in the western US, Williams was a prolific, transformative figure, but his role constructing for and with Black communities across the color line has been little accounted for. Marking the public debut of his archive, this exhibition examines the impact of Williams’s architecture in challenging systems and structures of racialized exclusion, offering an intimate portrait of life, hope…

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