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We are a grassroots organization of architectural workers that advocates for just labor practices and an equitable (built) environment.
We organise in working groups centred around particular themes.
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Green New Deal
We support a federal Green New Deal and are committed to the resolution’s call for a just transition. We focus on organizing for ecological justice as it relates to architectural labor, the built environment, and sustainable futures for all.
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A Documentary Film
“Architecture Workers: Organizing for Change” is a Lobby member interview-based documentary film featuring seven calls to action. Coming 2026.
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Unionization
The TAL Unionization Working Group (UWG) is an advocacy, support, and study group whose mission is to promote labor organizing for workers in architecture and related fields. While not ourselves a union, our members have played leading roles in the movement to organize architecture and designer workers since TAL’s inception. As our movement grows, we […]
Events
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Visit ‘Organizing the Lobby’ at the 2025 Venice Biennale
Visit The Architecture Lobby’s “Organizing in the Lobby” at the Arsenale Corderie—an interactive installation featuring 26 interviews with activist architecture organizations from around the globe. Discover how architectural workers worldwide are building collective power, fighting for climate justice, and challenging profit-driven development. The exhibit features 16+ hours of video documentation and displays a growing movement […]
Thursday 5/8/25 06:00pm—Sunday 11/23/25 06:00pm CEST
Arsenale Corderie
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Just the FAECTs: Organizing technical work from the 1930s to now
Recent labor organizing in architecture and engineering is unprecedented in recent history. Looking further back, though, we find a rich history of architects and other technical workers organizing together better working working conditions and, more than that, a better world.
Monday 5/6/24 06:30pm—08:00pm GMT
The People’s Forum
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NYC Chapter to attend local performance: ‘GRENFELL’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse
NYC Chapter to attend local performance: ‘GRENFELL’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse St Ann’s Warehouse, St. Ann’s Warehouse,45 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 May 11th, 2024 7:30pm-10:00pm It’s rare for topics related to the built environment to be dramatized into theatrical performances, especially ones that the Lobby is already organizing around. Let’s go see it together! […]
Saturday 5/11/24 07:00pm GMT
St. Ann’s Warehouse
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Who owns social housing?
Often, we think of mass social housing as something needing large entities—government agencies, philanthropies, or unions—to take on the profit-driven real estate sector. The history of New York City’s housing activism suggests otherwise, that tenants themselves are capable of leading the struggle for affordable and livable cities.
Monday 4/8/24 07:00pm—08:00am EDT
Citygroup
