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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 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 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 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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Read articleArchitecture’s Labor Problem
Kate Wagner The Nation July 31, 2023 Excerpt: “It’s no mystery how Adjaye was able to fly under the radar for so long. Architects like him achieve nigh-mythical status as solo geniuses whose groundbreaking work changes the very shape of art, if not the world. It does not matter to the public that he is […]
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Read articleTuning the Choir
Anjulie Rao New York Review of Architecture July 1, 2023 Excerpt: “It seems telling that a thirty-six-month endeavor is required to fully tell the Lobby’s story and illuminate its purpose and significance. It might be that the Lobby’s greatest weakness isn’t its irresolute focus between educating members and making actionable change. After all, individual members […]
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Read articleArchitects Are Starting to See Themselves as Workers — and Organizing Unions
Chris Beck JACOBIN June 16, 2023 Excerpt: “…building design is viewed at best as a luxury commodity and at worst as a service that can be trimmed until all that remains is what is necessary for minimal compliance. Without collective action to push back against these developments, the degradation of architects and their craft will only get […]
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