T-H-E
A-R-C-H-I-T-E-C-T-U-R-E
L-O-B-B-Y
News
-
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 […]
: September Calls to Action -
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 […]
: Organizing in the Lobby -
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 […]
: JT 03 — Building Trade and Design Workers Bridge the Divide -
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 […]
: Member Mobilization -
Read articleA Just Transition For The Building Sector: Toward a Radical Transformation of Housing and the Built Environment
Towards a radical transformation of housing and the build environment.
: A Just Transition For The Building Sector: Toward a Radical Transformation of Housing and the Built Environment -
Read articleJustDesign
The JustDesign campaign in late 2018 originally sought to give certification to architecture offices that have exemplary labor practice. It was intended to let would-be employees know how offices treated their workers, not just what designs the office produced. Surveys with six criteria for good labor practices were sent out to employees, and from there, […]
: JustDesign -
Read articleArchitecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School 2021
A-B-O-U-T The Architecture Beyond Capitalism School (ABC School) for 2021 spanned six weeks beginning Saturday June 19, 2021 with a culminating think-in session on July 31. The content was presented and discussed in three thematic sections: Capitalism, Labor, and Collective Practice. Each theme had two components: debates stimulated by lessons from people whose work is central […]
: Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School 2021 -
Read article#MeToo Solidarity Bloc
On March 22, 2018, The Architecture Lobby released a statement standing in solidarity with victims of sexual harassment in architecture. Read the full statement here. We took action to create a Solidarity Network to end the silence and complicity that enables structural, systemic conditions of abuse within workplaces and academia. The Network has evolved into […]
: #MeToo Solidarity Bloc -
Read article#EndPatriarchitecture – Statement on #meToo in architecture
We, The Architecture Lobby, stand with victims of sexual harassment and assault in school and in the workplace. We decry in no uncertain terms the use of positions of power to perpetuate abominable conduct. We ask all members of the architectural community to join us, and the many victims of harassment, in calling for fundamental change of our culture.
: #EndPatriarchitecture – Statement on #meToo in architecture -
Read articleKerning for a Cause: An Architecture Lobby Hosted Competition
The Chicago Chapter of The Architecture Lobby announces its first ever design competition, Kerning for a Cause, beginning August 1, 2016. Kerning for a Cause will be open to all architects and designers who self-identify as laborers, to redesign the Federal Labor Laws poster that is legally mandated to hang in any business with employees. The redesigned […]
: Kerning for a Cause: An Architecture Lobby Hosted Competition