“We are precarious workers. These are our demands:
- Enforce labor laws that prohibit unpaid internships, unpaid overtime; refuse unpaid competitions.
- Reject fees based on percentage of construction or hourly fees and instead calculate value based on the money we save our clients, or gain them.
- Stop peddling a product — buildings — and focus on the unique value architects help realize through spatial services.
- Enforce wage transparency across the discipline.
- Establish a union for architects, designers, academics and interns in architecture and design.
- Demystify the architect as solo creative genius; no honors for architects who don’t acknowledge their staff.
- Licensure upon completion of degree.
- Change professional architecture organizations to advocate for the living conditions of architects.
- Support research about professional labor rights in architecture.
- Implement democratic alternatives to the free market system of development.”
