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What unites us in building collective worker power across diverse firms, project types, and community contexts? We want to hear from you about your labor conditions, issues you care about, and challenges you face. TAL is a worker-run labor organization and our campaigns are only as effective as they root in the experience and needs…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…
