Mackey, Howard Hamilton
1901-1987 · Contribution: 1930s-1980s
Architect & Educator
Worked in Howard University's architecture department for 50 years as architect, educator, and administrator
Portraits are AI-generated interpretations, not photographs.
Quick facts
- Born
- 1901
- Active since
- 1930s
- Category
- Architecture & Design
- Best known for
- 50 years at Howard's architecture dept.Educator of generationsArchitect and painter
Impact on the world
Mackey trained a substantial share of the 20th century's Black architects, building Howard's program into an independent professional school and a national pipeline for the field.
Sources
- Wilson, 'African American Architects' (Routledge, 2004)
1 more sources and references are available to members.
Related visionaries
Hazel, William Augustus
1854-1929
First dean of architecture at Howard University (1919); a pioneering Black stained-glass artist who completed what is regarded as the first historic-preservation project by a Black architect (restoration of Frederick Douglass's Cedar Hill, 1922)
Fry, Louis Edwin Sr.
1903-2000
Former chair of Howard University's architecture department; registered architect in five states
Cassell, Albert Irvin
1895-1969
Designed buildings for Howard University, Morgan State University, and Virginia Union University
Bates, Robert Charles
1869-1950
First African American author of an architecture textbook; first Black architecture teacher at an HBCU