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TOM REYNOLDS
theTIKTOKARCHITECT
2%
of licensed U.S. architects are Black.
I'm working to change that.
“I started making TikToks because the profession needed a different voice. Somebody who looked like the communities we build in.”— Tom Reynolds
Twenty-
three tools.
Code calculators, structural tools, and project management — built by an architect who actually uses them. Free for anyone doing the work.
BalyeCleaner
Sweep your project folders clean. Find and remove outdated Revit and AutoCAD backup files in one pass.
↗ShambaWorks
Plan your flower bed at the nursery. Smart layouts, spacing, and budgeting.
↗Lakou
Your practice. Your pace. Your app. Project management built for solo architects.
↗All 23. Maintained at the source.
NIA.
Documenting Black contributions to architecture and the built world.
Black Architecture ArchiveAn archive of every Black architect this country chose to forget.
NIA is the Black Architecture Archive. Architect profiles, video interviews, and data on diversity within the profession.
Only 2% of licensed architects in the US are Black. NIA exists to make sure those stories don't disappear.
Visit the Archive→Architect the
Game.
“Sleep is for the licensed.”
A text-driven life simulation based on real data from the architecture profession. Choose your school, survive studio culture, manage money, stress, energy, and relationships semester by semester. Graduate — and discover that was only the beginning.
↓Android · v1.0.0
Size · 7.6 MB
Anansi
Build.
Export Revit architectural models to multi-color 3MF files for 3D printing. Auto material separation, 26 printer database, 19 architectural scales.
Architecture education,
one video at a time.
Tom Reynolds.
Architectural designer in Newark. Builds free tools. Runs an archive. Makes a game. Posts receipts.
20+ years in architectural design. Principal at Green Stories LLC. NOMA. Associate AIA. LEED Green Associate. Co-founder and former VP of the NJ Chapter of NOMA. Former President of the Montclair Branch of the NAACP.
I started making TikToks because the profession needed a different voice. Somebody who looked like the communities we build in. Not every architect has to come from money or look a certain way.
I built NIA, the Black Architecture Archive. I collaborate with BLKBRY Studios, an architectural firm in Newark. I wrote a children's book about Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first Black woman licensed as an architect in New York and California.