Arsenalegeddon

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 current state of organizing within the profession. Managing multivocality on a cross-organizational scale with loud and provocative graphics, Organizing in the Lobby anchors the Corderie’s main public program space with timeliness and focus.”

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    Beyond Licensure (Chapter 6)

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    Organizing Academia (Chapter 5)

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