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Read articleTAL – Boston Statement Against Unpaid Design Labor
Challenge accepted. October 13, 2025 The Boston Chapter of The Architecture Lobby stands firmly against the practice of unpaid design competitions and design performed during the interview process. Production of unpaid design diminishes the value of design labor, exacerbates inequality, and promotes exploitative work practices. By requiring unpaid design as a part of competitions or […]
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Read articleThe Architecture Lobby and DAARNA are calling upon the AIA to adopt the International Union of Architects’ Palestine resolution
Daniel jonas roche THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER OCTOBER 10, 2025 EXCERPT: “On October 3, The Architecture Lobby (TAL) and DAARNA released a statement urging AIA president Evelyn Lee, and AIA leadership more broadly, to adopt a resolution from the International Union of Architects (UIA) regarding Palestine. AIA did not respond to AN’s request for comment. “The […]
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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 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 articleWe have a new website!
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 […]
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Read articleThe Architecture Lobby Endorses Bernie Sanders for 2020 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee
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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Read article(Re)Working Architecture
A video documenting scenes, real and absurd, fictional and factual, of architectural practice. The Architecture Lobby will make an uninvited Chicago Biennial installation that consists of a set to videotaped scenarios depicting the absurdities of architectural practice/labor/work. These scenarios will be based on the 10 points of the Manifesto that the Lobby has produced. The […]
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Read article2016 Venice Biennale Proposal
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 […]
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