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Member Mobilization
Our Member Mobilization form allows members to anonymously acknowledge our individual capacities and inclinations towards collective action. We review and reflect on our collective strengths and boundaries to inform and direct the statements we make, education we offer, resources we compile, and the actions we endorse. This form is encrypted and password protected. Members should […]
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Read articleMaya Lin, SCAPE, Pratt, Alternative Building Industry Collective, and The Architecture Lobby partake in Climate Week NYC
Daniel Roche The Architect’s Newspaper September 19, 2023 Excerpt: “A group of architects holding a sign that read “ARCHITECTS AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS” took to the streets last Sunday in Manhattan in one of many happenings that kicked off Climate Week NYC: an event that brings together thousands of protesters; leaders in business, government, the climate sector; […]
: Maya Lin, SCAPE, Pratt, Alternative Building Industry Collective, and The Architecture Lobby partake in Climate Week NYC
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Read articleWorkers at Sage and Coombe Architects Unionize
Madeleine d’Angelo Architect Magazine September 14, 2023 Excerpt: “Today, workers at the New York–based firm Sage and Coombe Architects announced the successful formation of a union—the second private architecture firm in the United States to do so. Employees within the studio’s bargaining unit, now officially the SCA Union, began exploring the process a little over […]
: Workers at Sage and Coombe Architects Unionize
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Read articleT-A-L Solidarity Statement with Stop Cop City
The Architecture Lobby stands in solidarity with Stop Cop City and the defenders of the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia.
: T-A-L Solidarity Statement with Stop Cop City
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Read articleWe have a new website!
Dear members and friends of the Lobby, We are excited to announce the launch of our new website! It’s a work in progress, currently displaying basic content. The Website Committee is currently working with our partners Common Knowledge to build a number of additional features. The Website Committee is also developing an onboarding process for […]
: We have a new website!
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Read articleArchitecture’s Labor Problem
Kate Wagner The Nation July 31, 2023 Excerpt: “It’s no mystery how Adjaye was able to fly under the radar for so long. Architects like him achieve nigh-mythical status as solo geniuses whose groundbreaking work changes the very shape of art, if not the world. It does not matter to the public that he is […]
: Architecture’s Labor Problem
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Read articleTuning the Choir
Anjulie Rao New York Review of Architecture July 1, 2023 Excerpt: “It seems telling that a thirty-six-month endeavor is required to fully tell the Lobby’s story and illuminate its purpose and significance. It might be that the Lobby’s greatest weakness isn’t its irresolute focus between educating members and making actionable change. After all, individual members […]
: Tuning the Choir
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Read articleArchitects Are Starting to See Themselves as Workers — and Organizing Unions
Chris Beck JACOBIN June 16, 2023 Excerpt: “…building design is viewed at best as a luxury commodity and at worst as a service that can be trimmed until all that remains is what is necessary for minimal compliance. Without collective action to push back against these developments, the degradation of architects and their craft will only get […]
: Architects Are Starting to See Themselves as Workers — and Organizing Unions
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Read articleArchitects Are Toiling Under Brutal Working Conditions
Interview with Andrew Daley Jacobin May 14, 2023 Excerpt: “Andrew Daley was one of the SHoP workers who supported the union. During the campaign, Daley decided to make a change: he quit his job at SHoP and joined the Machinists as a full-time organizer. Since joining, Daley has assisted workers at Bernheimer Architecture, another New […]
: Architects Are Toiling Under Brutal Working Conditions
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Read articleSnøhetta Workers Say They Want a Union
Clio Chang Curbed May 9, 2023 Excerpt: “SHoP’s campaign ultimately failed, ending just a month after it went public. A group of associate principals at SHoP circulated a petition against the vote and painted a picture of financial blowback with one telling Curbed, “Clients threaten to stop working with us if we unionize.” In the end, […]
: Snøhetta Workers Say They Want a Union
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Read articleSolidarity with workers at Snøhetta
The Architecture Lobby stands in solidarity and joy with the architectural workers at Snøhetta’s U.S. studios who have filed for a union election. All workers deserve the agency and protection that a union affords. We celebrate the architects, landscape architects, designers, and operations staff organizing at Snøhetta. As a democratic, member-driven organization, we are eager […]
: Solidarity with workers at Snøhetta
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Read articleAn Extremely Normal Architecture Office
Bernheimer Architecture UnionAndrew DaleyJoshua McWhirter Urban Omnibus May 4, 2023 Excerpt: “Andrew Daley (AD): The fear of the unknown is huge. As an internal organizer at SHoP, that was something that we heard often: “It’s never been done before, why hasn’t it been done?” or, “There’s probably a good reason why that hasn’t happened.” But we […]
: An Extremely Normal Architecture Office
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Read articleSolidarity with UMich Graduate Workers on Strike
TAL stands in solidarity with the graduate workers on strike at the University of Michigan. Numerous Lobby members past and present have studied, worked as assistants, graduate student instructors, or as adjuncts at Taubman College at U.Mich. The struggle of graduate workers for fair contracts and a living wage is crucial to making real a […]
: Solidarity with UMich Graduate Workers on Strike