Michaele Pride-Wells

Michaele Pride-Wells (born 1956),^[1] is an American architect and educator. She is a professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico.^[1] She was the first woman-owned and operated architecture firm in the state of California.^[1] Pride-Wells was the founder of the firm RE: Architecture (1989–1996) in California.^[2] She was also the first African American woman to head an architecture program in a majority institution when she joined the University of Kentucky in 1996.^[1]

Michaele Pride-Wells was born in 1956 in the Granada Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles, California to parents Leatrice and Wallace Pride.^[1] She attended John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, class of 1974.^[1] Pride-Wells graduated with a B.Arch 1981 from Arizona State University.^[1] She is married to Reginald Wells and they have one child.^[3]

In 1989, she opened her own firm RE: Architecture (also known as "Regarding Architecture" in Los Angeles and later in Marina del Rey.^{[2] [4]} She was the first woman-owned and operated architecture firm in the state of California.^[1] She helped found the Design Professionals’ Coalition, a nonprofit which brought together architects, engineers and other builders after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in order to help the local community rebuild.^{[3] [5] [6]} In 1995, she served as an architectural consultant for the Leimert Park neighborhood developments, funded by the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative.^[7]

By 1996, she closed her firm in California to moved to Lexington, Kentucky. She served as the director of the University of Kentucky's downtown community design center starting in 1996; and "became the first African American woman to head an architecture program in a majority institution".^{[1] [8]} She was one of the fifteen judges for the creation of the Oklahoma Bombing Memorial (now known as the Oklahoma City National Memorial).^{[9] [10]} In 2001, she graduated with a M.AUD in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.^[1]

Prior to joining the University of New Mexico, she additionally has taught at the University of Cincinnati (2003–2009); the University of California, Los Angeles; Woodbury University; and the University of Southern California.^{[1] [11] [12]}

• Bailey, K; Grossardt, T.; Pride-Wells, M. (2017). "Community Design of a Light Rail Transit-Oriented District using CAVE (Casewise Visual Evaluation)". Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 41 (3): 235–254. doi:10.1016/j.seps.200604002.

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