Alicia Volcy And The Art Of Architecture

Source: iOne Digital Creative Services “I just don’t understand why we need to keep her on this project,” Alicia Volcy recalled, her heart still sinking over what she overheard a colleague say at her architecture firm job. “It’s like she’s not even trying to fit in with the team,” were the painful words that still cut her to this day. NewsOne Presents Still Blooming In The Whirlwind: Pittsburgh As A Black Cultural And Artistic Mecca Volcy had been working diligently on a project, putting in long hours and infusing it with her unique perspective. But despite her efforts, she often felt sidelined; her ideas brushed aside, and her ideas brushed aside in favor of those from white colleagues. “I felt invisible,” she says today, “like my voice and presence didn’t matter.” Alicia Volcy, founder and CEO of Studio Volcy. | Credit: Alisa Innocenti Volcy has not let herself be deterred by what others thought since childhood when she first began gravitating to her interest. “I’ve always seen architecture as an art form. I was an artist first. As a child, I got into trouble for drawing when I wasn’t supposed to be,” says Volcy, who grew up in a small...