Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP

Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP, Chief Executive Officer, New York Studio at Adjaye Associates, with over 18 years of experience, has been on the team for numerous projects around the world. Pascale is the 315th living African-American woman registered architect in the United States. She is an activist architect who works to advance architecture for the betterment of society through bringing visibility and voice to the issues concerning women and BIPOC designers. She founded the Beyond the Built Environment organization to address the inequitable disparities in architecture.
She has been quoted in the New York Times regarding her efforts, and Forbes magazine described her as “the powerhouse woman...actively changing history with a simple mission: women and designers of color must claim and be credited for their contributions to the built environment.” More recently she was featured on Oprah’s Future Rising platform for Black trailblazers moving our world forward in the Audacious category.

In 2025 Pascale serves on the International Union of Architects / Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) Professional Practice Commission. In 2023, Pascale began serving a two-year term as the President of the National Organization of Minority Architects, the 5th woman to hold this position in the organization’s 52-year legacy. In 2025 she was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Service by National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) and the Architectural League 2021 Emerging Voices award and the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award for her advocacy efforts and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows, the youngest African American in the world to reach that honor in the organization’s 167-year legacy. She was the 2022 AIA National Secretary’s Advisory Committee Member. Pascale has given lectures at Colleges and Universities nationally and; cultural institutions such as the United Nations and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Sablan holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University.

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