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Read articleSeptember Calls to Action
Below are summarized calls to action from the TAL September newsletter. For full details and context, read the full newsletter on Substack. Join the Anti-Carceral Campaign TAL is launching a campaign to mobilize architectural workers against the prison industrial complex, ICE, and carceral architecture. We’re building capacity to refuse carceral projects, pressure firms and professional […]
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Read articleOrganizing in the Lobby
The Architecture Lobby at La Biennale di Venezia 2025 08 May – 23 Nov 2025 The Architecture Lobby (TAL) conducted interviews with fellow activist architecture worker organizations around the globe, asking them about their work, their formation, and their vision. These conversations comprise TAL’s “Organizing in the Lobby,” an interactive video project exhibited in the Arsenale […]
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Read articleArchitecture Workers Are Building Power on the Job
Eloise Sherrid Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee July 21, 2025 Excerpt: “I think the exhibit really got people thinking. It was one of maybe two or three genuinely political projects in this entire massive exhibition, and it was the only one that talked about labor. The other ones about politics were about housing. Also, we managed […]
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Read articleThe Architecture Lobby presents oral history of labor organizing at the 2025 Venice Biennale
Josh Niland Archinect May 8, 2025 Excerpt: “The Architecture Lobby is part of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale with the installation Organizing in the Lobby, which documents their mission as an advocacy group within its place among a worldwide network of new labor activist groups representing the architecture and design industries. The list of collaborators it features includes Architectural […]
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Read articleArsenalegeddon
CCCP ’26 E-flux May 2025 Excerpt: “Yet, there are some moments of fruitful relation. Deep into the exhibition, squeezed against the amphitheater of Speaker’s Corner (by Christopher Hawthorne, Johnston Marklee, Florencia Rodriguez), Organizing in the Lobby (by The Architecture Lobby) highlights our time’s labor crises through video interviews with architecture activist groups, contributing a frame of reference for the […]
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Read articleJust Transition Pamphlet Series
We are writing a series of Just Transition pamphlets to engage in education and base building among AEC workers. In conjunction with that, we are organizing events and workshops with allied organizations. Below is an overview of our pamplets to date! JT 01 – We are Fossil Fuel Workers! Like the energy sector, the building […]
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Read articleJT 03 — Building Trade and Design Workers Bridge the Divide
Design And Trades Workers Are In It Together The building sector is broken. Despite decades of sustainability initiatives in the design professions, little progress has been made to reduce the building sector’s outsized contribution to climate change. We have waited for market forces to reorient the sector for us, but the market has failed. Now […]
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Read articleHow can precariously employed adjunct faculty convincingly guide architecture students to stable careers?
Peggy Deamer, Tom Fisher The Architect’s Newspaper October 2, 2024 Excerpt: “If anything, universities’ dependence on adjuncts reveals an unsustainable underbelly—institutions trying to control costs and moderate tuition increases on the backs of adjunct faculty in order to balance their budgets. As the group gathered at The Architectural League noted, this creates “architecture’s painful paradox: […]
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Read articleStructural Change: Architecture adjuncts demand labor equity
Peggy Deamer, Tom Fisher The Architect’s Newspaper October 2, 2024 Excerpt: “Insufficiently addressed and inadequately documented, architecture adjunct precarity is a stark symptom of wider systemic issues. The precarious conditions of architecture workers straddle both the academic and professional realms, entangled in a web of challenges that interact, converge, and amplify one another. Our tacit […]
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Read articleBuilding Solidarity
Adare Brown, Celina Barron, Rafael Cabrera, and Katie Lau URBAN OMNIBUS June 6, 2024 Excerpt: “The building sector is deeply implicated in the fossil fuel economy: untangling this relationship will carry social consequences for the cities and landscapes where we live and work. Just Transition is a bottom-up worker-led movement to empower vulnerable communities and address climate change, hand-in-hand. A Just Transition […]
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Read articleOur best organizer!
Jack Rusk, James Heard, Joshua Barnett, Adare Brown The Avery Review February 2024 Excerpt: “The largest attempt to unionize public- and private-sector architects in the United States was made in the early twentieth century by the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians (FAECT, sometimes pronounced like “fact”). FAECT documented their organizing efforts through a […]
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Read articleMember 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; […]
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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 […]
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