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Read articleSeptember Calls to Action
Below are summarized calls to action from the TAL September newsletter. For full details and context, read the full newsletter on Substack. Join the Anti-Carceral Campaign TAL is launching a campaign to mobilize architectural workers against the prison industrial complex, ICE, and carceral architecture. We’re building capacity to refuse carceral projects, pressure firms and professional […]
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Read articleJT 03 — Building Trade and Design Workers Bridge the Divide
Design And Trades Workers Are In It Together The building sector is broken. Despite decades of sustainability initiatives in the design professions, little progress has been made to reduce the building sector’s outsized contribution to climate change. We have waited for market forces to reorient the sector for us, but the market has failed. Now […]
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Read articleMember Mobilization
Our Member Mobilization form allows members to anonymously acknowledge our individual capacities and inclinations towards collective action. We review and reflect on our collective strengths and boundaries to inform and direct the statements we make, education we offer, resources we compile, and the actions we endorse. This form is encrypted and password protected. Members should […]
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Read articleArchitecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School 2022
A-B-O-U-T The Academia Working Group of The Architecture Lobby ran a Summer 2022 workshop as part of its annual Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School. The ABC 2022 workshop built on the 2021 session, which focused on Capitalism, Labor, and Collectives, by concentrating on studio educational practices. As the pedagogical setting in which most of an […]
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Read articleThere Is Power in a Union
Unionization has been one of The Architecture Lobby’s core campaigns since its inception. We have worked to build networks of solidarity among previously unorganized architectural workers, compiled resources and educational materials on the potential benefits of unionization for our sector, and provided organizational support for workers interested in beginning unionization campaigns at their workplaces. With […]
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Read articleA Just Transition For The Building Sector: Toward a Radical Transformation of Housing and the Built Environment
Towards a radical transformation of housing and the build environment.
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Read articleArchitecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School 2021
A-B-O-U-T The Architecture Beyond Capitalism School (ABC School) for 2021 spanned six weeks beginning Saturday June 19, 2021 with a culminating think-in session on July 31. The content was presented and discussed in three thematic sections: Capitalism, Labor, and Collective Practice. Each theme had two components: debates stimulated by lessons from people whose work is central […]
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Read articleT-H-I-N-K—I-N — Architecture Beyond Capitalism school (ABC) 2021
PURPOSE OF AND SCHEDULE FOR THINK-IN DISCUSSION The culminating “Think-In,” on July 31 from 4-6pm, is intended to provide space for reflection, revision, and provocation. As we collectively reflect on the past six weeks, we hope to together identify and debate the institutional nature of an ideal architectural education and/or the ABC Summer School’s role […]
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Read articleC-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-E-S — Architecture Beyond Capitalism school (ABC) 2021
Presentations by: Magali Sarfatti Larson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Temple UniversityCristina Gamboa, chartered architect, co-founder of Barcelona-based Lacol Garrett Jacobs, Chief of Finance and Operations, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces; founding director, Open Architecture Collaborative Kofi Boone, University Faculty Scholar and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at NC State University in the […]
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Read articleL-A-B-O-R — Architecture Beyond Capitalism school (ABC) 2021
From the domestic sphere to the office to the boardroom to the construction site… PRESENTATIONS BY Lygia Sabbag Fares, Faculty, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Ekta Mittal and Ramnath Bhat, co-founders of Maraa Aska Welford and Kirti Durelle, United Voices Section of Workers Labor Union (UVW-SAW) Federico Garcia Lammers and Jessica Garcia Fritz, Founders LAB-OR and Faculty, […]
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