For this Roundtable, we will be joined by our 2021 Oregon Architecture Awards Jury: Pascale Sablan, Bryan C Lee Jr., and Ricardo de Jesús Maga Rojas.

The Jury will be discussing the philosophy of award-winning design and just what it takes to advance architectural practice through good design.

Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP
Jury Chair

Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, Associate at Adjaye Associates, has been on the team for a variety of mixed-use, commercial, cultural & residential projects in the U.S., Saudi Arabia, India, & UAE. Pascale is the 315th living African American female architect in the U.S. Pascale has given lectures at Institutions, such as the National Museum of African American History & Culture and the United Nations Visitor Centre. She lectured and engaged students at Universities and Colleges all over the nation.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Beyond the Built Environment, (BBE) positioned to uniquely address the inequitable disparities in architecture by providing a holistic platform aimed to support numerous stages of the architecture pipeline.

Bryan C Lee Jr.
Founder/ Design Principal, Colloqate Design

Bryan Lee is the Design Principal of Colloqate and a national Design Justice Advocate. Lee has twelve years of experience in the field of architecture Lee is the founding organizer of the Design Justice Platform and organized the Design As Protest National Day of Action. Bryan has led two award-winning architecture and design programs for high school students through the Arts Council of New Orleans and the National Organization of Minority Architects. He was noted as one of the 2018 Fast Company Most Creative People in Business, a USC Annenberg MacArthur Civic Media Fellow, and the youngest design firm to win the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices award in 2019.

Ricardo de Jesús Maga Rojas, Assoc. AIA
Recipient, AIA 2021 Associate Award

Growing up in Cuba, Ricardo de Jesús Maga Rojas, Assoc. AIA, NOMA, met just one architect when enrolled in his high school’s drafting magnet program. Since then, he has yet to meet an architect of African descent and Cuban heritage, an absence that fuels his dream to become a licensed architect and reshape the profession to be more reflective of him and other architects of color. Through his leadership and boundless enthusiasm, Rojas plays a significant role in igniting needed change in his chapter, firm, and the city of Austin.

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