Structural Change: Architecture adjuncts demand labor equity


Peggy Deamer, Tom Fisher

The Architect’s Newspaper

October 2, 2024

Excerpt:

“Insufficiently addressed and inadequately documented, architecture adjunct precarity is a stark symptom of wider systemic issues. The precarious conditions of architecture workers straddle both the academic and professional realms, entangled in a web of challenges that interact, converge, and amplify one another. Our tacit goal? To sketch a blueprint for structural change and equity in architecture education. Organizing will constitute its binding force.”

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