McAfee, Charles F.
1932- · Contribution: 1960s-1980s
One of the first African American registered architects in Kansas (1963); FAIA and recipient of the AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award; founded Charles F. McAfee Architects, Engineers & Planners and pioneered modular affordable-housing manufacturing
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Impact on the world
Built his own manufacturing facilities for modular building materials he designed, focusing his firm's practice on affordable housing and job creation, an unusually vertically integrated approach for an architecture practice of his era.
Life & background
An architect, McAfee founded what became Charles F. McAfee Architects, Engineers, and Planners, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. He designed modular building materials and built his own manufacturing facilities to produce them, focusing his practice on affordable housing development and job creation.
Sources
- The HistoryMakers; University of Nebraska College of Architecture; AIA (Whitney M. Young Jr. Award); University of Kansas (Kenneth Spencer Research Library)
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