When people design and build their own environments, they take ownership of the places they create and sustain them long term.
Open Architecture Collaborative is a global learning community mobilizing architects, designers, and a diverse range of professionals who shape the built environment with technical skills to build capacity with communities experiencing systemic racism and marginalization.
What We Do
Our programs bring people from different backgrounds together to co-create a new narrative of power in our contemporary environment through accomplishing small projects.
Pathways to Equity
Pathways to Equity is a design leadership program committed to centering equity and racial justice in architecture and design practices.
OAC Chapters
Our groups are dedicated individuals and volunteers committed to serving their local communities through projects, events, and programming.
Our Programs
Our Reach
160
Local Leaders
225
NGOs Supported
800,000
Pro-Bono Hours Served
22
Chapters
Work With Us
OAC has over 15 years of volunteer management, creative placemaking coordination, and community engagement experience building community capacity and serving as an intermediary between professional practitioners and systemically marginalized communities.
Donate
Donating to the Open Architecture Collaborative, Inc. means enabling more community members with tools and connections to change their neighborhoods and to fight systemic disinvestment, environmental injustice, blight, and unsafe streets and public spaces.
Get Involved
What Our Partners Says
“Our partnership with Open Architecture Chicago is helping to bring voice and shape to our aspirations for a healthy, livable vibrant community for generations to come.
— Cheryl Johnson, Executive Director of People for Community Recovery