The Architecture Lobby presents oral history of labor organizing at the 2025 Venice Biennale

Josh Niland

Archinect

May 8, 2025

Excerpt:

“The Architecture Lobby is part of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale with the installation Organizing in the Lobby, which documents their mission as an advocacy group within its place among a worldwide network of new labor activist groups representing the architecture and design industries. 

The list of collaborators it features includes Architectural Workers United, Dark Matter University, Future Architects Front, Kate Wagner, the Design As Protest collective, and the Architects! Climate Action Network, and several others.”

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