Ivenue Love-Stanley facts for kids

Ivenue Love-Stanley, FAIA, NOMA (born 1951) is a well-known American architect. She helped create Stanley, Love-Stanley P.C., an architecture and design company in Atlanta. She was the first African-American woman to finish her studies at Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture. In 1983, she became the first African-American woman to be a licensed architect in the Southeast.

Love-Stanley has worked on many important projects. These include the Aquatic Center for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. She also designed the Lyke House Catholic Student Center at the Atlanta University Center. Other projects are the Southwest YMCA and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. These churches won awards from the National Organization of Minority Architects. She also worked on the Auburn Market in Sweet Auburn and the main office for the National Black Arts Festival.

About Ivenue Love-Stanley

Ivenue Love-Stanley grew up in Meridian, Mississippi. She earned her first degree in Mathematics from Millsaps College in 1972. Later, she received a Master of Architecture degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1977. Love-Stanley strongly supports efforts to include more diverse students at Georgia Tech. She gives an award each year for a student mentoring program. This program helps students of African descent with good grades. They receive a scholarship and a chance to work as an intern. She has also served on Georgia Tech's alumni board and its National Advisory Board.

In 1978, she started Stanley, Love-Stanley, P.C. with her husband, William J. "Bill" Stanley III. Their company has grown to be the second largest African-American architecture firm in the Southern U.S. Through her work with the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), she helped connect them with the American Institute of Architects.

During the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, Love-Stanley helped design the Olympic Aquatic Center. She also oversaw the creation of a "Celebrate Africa" exhibit and performance. Later, she provided design help for Youth Art Connection. This is an art gallery and center for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta.

Love-Stanley has served on several boards that protect historic buildings. She also served on Atlanta's Zoning Review Board. For eight years, she was on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Midtown Improvement District. This group manages big building projects in Midtown Atlanta. She also helped make Atlanta's West End neighborhood a national historic district. She volunteered to check documents and create drawings. She also advised on the project.

While on the board of the Atlanta Preservation Center, she helped save several important buildings from being torn down. She also led the restoration of the Herndon Home Museum. This museum was once owned by Alonzo Herndon, a very rich African-American man. Love-Stanley also gave her time for free to design the Sweet Auburn Avenue project. This project helped make the area around the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park and APEX Museum in Atlanta better.

She has received many awards for her community work and professional service. These awards recognize her efforts to improve historic areas in Atlanta. They also honor her work to include more minority groups in the architecture field.

Awards and Recognitions

Ivenue Love-Stanley is known for her community service and her architectural designs. Two projects by Stanley Love-Stanley, P.C. are shown in a book called "Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory" by Judith Dupré. These projects are the Horizon Sanctuary (which is home to the Ebenezer Baptist Church) and a sculpture at John Westley Dobbs Plaza in Atlanta.

Here are some of her awards and honors:

• In 1995, she was named one of the "top women architects" by Ebony magazine.
• The Cathedral at Turner Chapel, the world's largest African Methodist Episcopal Church, won an award in 2008. It received the Brick in Architecture Award, Silver in the "Houses of Worship" category.
• She was appointed to the Atlanta Urban Design Commission in 2005.
• She served on the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers from 2003 to 2012.
• In 2014, she received the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award from the American Institute of Architects.

See also

In Spanish: Ivenue Love-Stanley para niños

• African Americans in Atlanta
• African-American architects
• Cheryl L. McAfee