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June 16, 2023
“…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 worse, and the potential for solidaristic action with other workers will slip away.”
Architectural Workers International The Architect’s Newspaper July 22, 2026 Architecture Workers International (AWI), the coalition of labor advocacy groups that includes TAL, has published a response to Reinier de Graaf’s recent op-ed for The Architect’s Newspaper on globalization, oppressive regimes, and the profession’s supposed dilemma. Where de Graaf frames the choice as one between complicity…
July 15, 2026 Hot off the (digital) press: the latest Lobby newsletter. Dive in, and subscribe to keep them coming, over here. Highlights
Archis has published the participatory work of The Architecture Lobby exhibited at 2025 Venice Architectural Biennale, Organizing in the Lobby, in its 69th issue of VOLUME journal, Stress Management. Through this piece, we read the murmurs, outbursts, lizard-brain reactions, grievances big and small, and other stress releases of the collective psyche of the global architectural…