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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Towards a radical transformation of housing and the build environment.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Presentations by: Ana María León, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, and Andrew Herscher, Professor, University of Michigan; co-founders of Settler Colonial City Project Raj Patel, Research Professor, University of Texas, Austin and a Senior Research Associate, Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa Huda Tayob, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town; co-curator, Race, Space, & Architecture Mathew Soules, Associate Professor, University […]
The Architecture Lobby Cooperative Network group began meeting in 2018 (as Socializing Small Firms) to determine the viability of coops for small architectural firms. The decision to concentrate on small firms was strategic – harder to convince large corporate firms to go this route – and ideological – the survival of small firms depended on this. The work has been loosely divided into three research parts, somewhat related to chronology.