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 […]
Dear members and friends of the Lobby, We are excited to announce the launch of our new website! It’s a work in progress, currently displaying basic content. The Website Committee is currently working with our partners Common Knowledge to build a number of additional features. The Website Committee is also developing an onboarding process for […]
The Architecture Lobby is a member-driven activist organization devoted to raising the political consciousness of the design fields and organizing a more just profession. TAL is a workers’ organization. As long as architecture tolerates abusive practices in the office and on the construction site, it cannot insist on its role in and for the public good. Some of our primary goals include achieving workplace democracy through unions and worker cooperatives, as well as a Green New Deal to tackle the crises of climate breakdown and social inequity.
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 […]
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 […]
Our proposal, anticipated to be unsuccessful, gave the curators for the US Pavilion an opportunity to open discussions, widen the discourse and set issues of labor, social justice and economics in focus for a city that desperately needs critical design and awareness. Instead, The Architectural Imagination, curated by Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce De Leon, consists […]