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Building 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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Our best organizer!
Jack Rusk, James Heard, Joshua Barnett, Adare Brown The Avery Review February 2024 Excerpt: “The largest attempt to unionize public- and private-sector architects in the United States was made in the early twentieth century by the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians (FAECT, sometimes pronounced like “fact”). FAECT documented their organizing efforts through a […]
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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; […]
: Maya Lin, SCAPE, Pratt, Alternative Building Industry Collective, and The Architecture Lobby partake in Climate Week NYC
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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 […]
: Architects Are Starting to See Themselves as Workers — and Organizing Unions
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Read articleArchitects Are Toiling Under Brutal Working Conditions
Interview with Andrew Daley Jacobin May 14, 2023 Excerpt: “Andrew Daley was one of the SHoP workers who supported the union. During the campaign, Daley decided to make a change: he quit his job at SHoP and joined the Machinists as a full-time organizer. Since joining, Daley has assisted workers at Bernheimer Architecture, another New […]
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Read articleSnøhetta Workers Say They Want a Union
Clio Chang Curbed May 9, 2023 Excerpt: “SHoP’s campaign ultimately failed, ending just a month after it went public. A group of associate principals at SHoP circulated a petition against the vote and painted a picture of financial blowback with one telling Curbed, “Clients threaten to stop working with us if we unionize.” In the end, […]
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Read articleAn Extremely Normal Architecture Office
Bernheimer Architecture UnionAndrew DaleyJoshua McWhirter Urban Omnibus May 4, 2023 Excerpt: “Andrew Daley (AD): The fear of the unknown is huge. As an internal organizer at SHoP, that was something that we heard often: “It’s never been done before, why hasn’t it been done?” or, “There’s probably a good reason why that hasn’t happened.” But we […]
: An Extremely Normal Architecture Office