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Read articleHow to Host a Screening
Architecture Workers: Organizing for Change Planning & Discussion Guide A message from the TAL film team A message from the TAL film team Thank you for hosting a screening of Architecture Workers: Organizing for Change! This film is the product of four years of effort on the part of The Architecture Lobby, and we are…
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October/November ’26 Newsletter
Dattner workers organize, our film hits the road, and an AMA on history, theory and power. Read the full thing here, and subscribe if you haven’t yet! Highlights
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Read articleExpanding Solidarity (Chapter 7)
Social and Global Justice by and for Architecture Workers Where will you build solidarity? Who will you bring with you? “How do you create solidarity across different sectors of labor? It becomes infinitely easier to do if your sector is already organized.” Discussion guide Theme: connecting architecture workers’ struggles to builders, tenants, disabled communities, climate…
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Read articleBeyond Licensure (Chapter 6)
New Pathways to Architecture Work What skills matter and how will you pass them on? “If I was to revamp architecture education, I’d have everybody working construction for two years.” Discussion guide Theme: who gets to practice architecture, and which skills and schools could open new pathways. Facilitator tip: ask people to name values as…
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Read articleOrganizing Academia (Chapter 5)
From Studio to System How will you turn education into a force for change? “What is the relationship between architecture and capitalism? How does that then change the academy such that students are prepared to ‘do architecture’?” Discussion guide Theme: how schools, studios and classrooms can become places to organize. Facilitator tip: link people’s classroom…
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Read articleCooperatives (Chapter 4)
Envisioning Cooperatives of Architecture Workers How would working cooperatively change your practice? “The idea of cooperation and a flat hierarchy within a design project or firm has revolutionary potential.” Discussion guide Theme: exploring how collective ownership might transform daily practice. Facilitator tip: mix the practical (pay ratios, schedules, project choice) with the bigger democratic ideas.…
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Read articleUnionization (Chapter 3)
Building Worker Power in Architecture Firms What if you had a say in how work shapes your daily life? “You don’t get power through being professionals, you get power through unions.” Discussion guide Theme: surfacing issues and naming what collective action could change. Facilitator tip: stay with the issues and the relationships. The legal steps…
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Read articlePast Organizing (Chapter 2)
Connect history to today Where does professional identity show up in your work? “Architects never control their market, because architects do not dominate what is built.” Discussion guide Theme: connecting past organizing and repression to your own identity and conditions. Tip for discussion facilitators: some people will push back on calling themselves workers. That’s a…
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Read articleWhy Organize (Chapter 1)
Share your story How has architectural work affected you? “I had been indoctrinated in the way that we practice as designers in terms of long hours, unpaid competitions, unpaid overtime. I felt powerless.” Discussion Guide Theme: passion vs. exploitation, and why sharing your personal experience with peers matters. (Tip for discussion facilitators: start with lighter,…
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September ’26 Newsletter
Happy Labor Day! This month’s dispatch kicks off our 2026-27 Practice Series. Read the full thing here, and subscribe if you haven’t yet! Highlights
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August ’26 Newsletter
August 13, 2026 This month’s dispatch is in: new committees, a documentary countdown, and a lot to organize around. Read the full thing here, and subscribe if you haven’t yet! Highlights
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Read articleAWI Responds to de Graaf’s Op-Ed on Globalization and the Profession
Architectural Workers International The Architect’s Newspaper July 22, 2026 Architecture Workers International (AWI), the coalition of labor advocacy groups that includes TAL, has published a response to Reinier de Graaf’s recent op-ed for The Architect’s Newspaper on globalization, oppressive regimes, and the profession’s supposed dilemma. Where de Graaf frames the choice as one between complicity…
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Read articleJuly ’26 Newsletter
July 15, 2026 Hot off the (digital) press: the latest Lobby newsletter. Dive in, and subscribe to keep them coming, over here. Highlights
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Read articleTAL in Archis VOLUME 69
Archis has published the participatory work of The Architecture Lobby exhibited at 2025 Venice Architectural Biennale, Organizing in the Lobby, in its 69th issue of VOLUME journal, Stress Management. Through this piece, we read the murmurs, outbursts, lizard-brain reactions, grievances big and small, and other stress releases of the collective psyche of the global architectural…
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