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THE THIRD OFFICE
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP, is the Founder and CEO of The Third Office, a strategic advisory practice operating at the intersection of design, development, leadership, and social impact. With over 20 years of experience, she has led and contributed to major international cultural, civic, and commercial projects, with a strong emphasis on community engagement and culturally responsive design. Pascale is the Founder & Executive Director of Beyond the Built Environment, an organization dedicated to advancing equity in the built environment by elevating the work of women and designers of color globally. She served as the 2023–2024 President of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and is a member of the NOMA Council. Pascale is the author of GREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture and the recipient of the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. She was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2021 and continues to lecture at national and international institutions, including the United Nations and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP, is the Founder and CEO of The Third Office, a strategic advisory practice operating at the intersection of design, development, leadership, and social impact. With over 18 years of experience, she has led major international cultural, civic, and commercial projects, with a strong emphasis on community engagement and culturally responsive design. Pascale is the Founder and Executive Director of Beyond the Built Environment, advancing equity by elevating women and designers of color globally. She served as the 2023–2024 President of NOMA and is a member of the NOMA Council. Pascale is the author of GREATNESS and recipient of the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award, and she was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2021. She continues to lecture at national and international institutions, including the United Nations and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Vision for Barbados
(In Progress)
Situated adjacent to the Newton Enslaved Burial Ground, where the remains of 570 West African slaves were uncovered through a LIDAR study, this memorial will demarcate a site of tragedy and trauma and transform it into a charged place of commemoration, remembrance, and connection. Aligning the sacred landscape with notions of renewal and rebirth, the memorial addresses a traumatic past whilst celebrating the potential for new futures through an inherently African design in which the cycle of birth to death, born from the Earth and returning, becomes manifest and mediated through architecture.
Sycamore & Oak (2023)
Sycamore & Oak is a community-led development located on Parcel 15 in Congress Heights. This mass timber structure consists of a 22,000-square-foot Interim Retail Village (IRV) that will largely incubate retail and food concepts that originated in the community and provide job opportunities to neighborhood residents. Conceived as entirely public space, the introduction of a plinth becomes a focal point for gathering and creates a viewing deck into the multiple programs activating the site from the education centers, retail incubators to the outdoor dining, gathering and performance pavilion. The structure is open-air with a featured canopy that offers protection from the elements and cultivates a sense of intimacy or ‘community within community’ when underneath. The environmental canopy also is conceived both a device for collecting rainwater as well as an energy carpet using photovoltaic panels that collects energy allowing this infrastructure to strive to be net zero.
Vision for Barbados (In Progress)
Situated adjacent to the Newton Enslaved Burial Ground, where the remains of 570 West African slaves were uncovered through a LIDAR study, this memorial will demarcate a site of tragedy and trauma and transform it into a charged place of commemoration, remembrance, and connection. Aligning the sacred landscape with notions of renewal and rebirth, the memorial addresses a traumatic past whilst celebrating the potential for new futures through an inherently African design in which the cycle of birth to death, born from the Earth and returning, becomes manifest and mediated through architecture.
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THE THIRD OFFICE
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, is Chief Executive Officer, New York Studio of Adjaye Associates. She leads major international cultural, civic, and commercial projects, and places a strong emphasis on community engagement strategies to create culturally responsive built environments. She holds degrees from Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and her industry involvement includes serving as President of NOMA, receiving the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr Award, and becoming an AIA Fellow in 2021. She is an active lecturer at national institutions, the United Nations, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Vision for Barbados (In Progress)
Situated adjacent to the Newton Enslaved Burial Ground, where the remains of 570 West African slaves were uncovered through a LIDAR study, this memorial will demarcate a site of tragedy and trauma and transform it into a charged place of commemoration, remembrance, and connection. Aligning the sacred landscape with notions of renewal and rebirth, the memorial addresses a traumatic past whilst celebrating the potential for new futures through an inherently African design in which the cycle of birth to death, born from the Earth and returning, becomes manifest and mediated through architecture.
THE THIRD OFFICE
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, is Chief Executive Officer, New York Studio of Adjaye Associates. She leads major international cultural, civic, and commercial projects, and places a strong emphasis on community engagement strategies to create culturally responsive built environments. She holds degrees from Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and her industry involvement includes serving as President of NOMA, receiving the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr Award, and becoming an AIA Fellow in 2021. She is an active lecturer at national institutions, the United Nations, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
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03/21/2022
My AIA Documentary Was Officially Released
I am ecstatic to share that my AIA documentary was officially released that gives insight to me and my advocacy work. Both activism and…
03/14/2021
I Was Published in Two Books!
Historian work is incredibly important in keeping our history and educating future generations through our voices…
06/30/2019
Cleveland Foundation Headquarters
I'm truly proud to share our collaborations with The Cleveland Foundation to design their headquarters. As a mission based organization…
I Was Published in Two Books!
07/06/2022
Historian work is incredibly important in keeping our history and educating future generations through our voices…
My AIA Documentary Was Officially Released
03/21/2022
I am ecstatic to share that my AIA documentary was officially released that gives insight to me and my advocacy work. Both activism and…
Cleveland Foundation Headquarters
06/30/2019
I'm truly proud to share our collaborations with The Cleveland Foundation to design their headquarters. As a mission based organization…
Sycamore & Oak (2023)
Sycamore & Oak is a community-led development located on Parcel 15 in Congress Heights. This mass timber structure consists of a 22,000-square-foot Interim Retail Village (IRV) that will largely incubate retail and food concepts that originated in the community and provide job opportunities to neighborhood residents. Conceived as entirely public space, the introduction of a plinth becomes a focal point for gathering and creates a viewing deck into the multiple programs activating the site from the education centers, retail incubators to the outdoor dining, gathering and performance pavilion. The structure is open-air with a featured canopy that offers protection from the elements and cultivates a sense of intimacy or ‘community within community’ when underneath. The environmental canopy also is conceived both a device for collecting rainwater as well as an energy carpet using photovoltaic panels that collects energy allowing this infrastructure to strive to be net zero.
Sycamore & Oak (2023)
Sycamore & Oak is a community-led development located on Parcel 15 in Congress Heights. This mass timber structure consists of a 22,000-square-foot Interim Retail Village (IRV) that will largely incubate retail and food concepts that originated in the community and provide job opportunities to neighborhood residents. Conceived as entirely public space, the introduction of a plinth becomes a focal point for gathering and creates a viewing deck into the multiple programs activating the site from the education centers, retail incubators to the outdoor dining, gathering and performance pavilion. The structure is open-air with a featured canopy that offers protection from the elements and cultivates a sense of intimacy or ‘community within community’ when underneath. The environmental canopy also is conceived both a device for collecting rainwater as well as an energy carpet using photovoltaic panels that collects energy allowing this infrastructure to strive to be net zero.