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Pascale Sablan
Chief Executive Officer, The Third Office
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP, Chief Executive Officer, The Third Office, with over 18 years of experience, has been on the team for numerous projects around the world. Pascale is the 315th living African-亚色影库n 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 鈥渢he 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.鈥 More recently she was featured on Oprah鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 亚色影库n in the world to reach that honor in the organization鈥檚 167-year legacy. She was the 2022 AIA National Secretary鈥檚 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 亚色影库n History and Culture.
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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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