About

How we organise

The Architecture Lobby is organized as a decentralized network of Chapters around the country. The Chapters are comprised by Lobby members forming diverse groups of architectural students, young mid-career, and senior professionals, firm owners, design journalists, and academics, and are led by rotating Chapter Stewards.

Chapters will typically engage with these projects and are also encouraged to self-organize projects and events of specific concerns to their locality and their chapter membership

Legal structure

The Architecture Lobby is comprised of two nonprofit organizations, both incorporated in the State of Connecticut:
The Architecture Lobby, Inc: a 501(c)6: members, campaigns and projects are part of this organization. This organization is funded solely through membership dues, which allows us to engage in political activities and lobbying.

The Architecture Initiative, Inc: a 501(c)3, is financed through tax-exempt donations, and the sales of merchandise, publications, etc., and provides funding for The Architecture Lobby’s educational activities. This organization has no members, only a Board of Directors, of which some overlap with The Architecture Lobby’s BoD.

Organising committee

The activities of the Lobby are supported by an Organizing Committee, with annually-elected officers for Content, Communication, Finance, Organization, Research, Design, and Secretary. National-scale projects are discussed and decided in the Lobby Organizing Committee and in national member’s meetings (which happen over the web).