We support a federal Green New Deal and are committed to the resolution’s call for a just transition. We focus on organizing for ecological justice as it relates to architectural labor, the built environment, and sustainable futures for all.

The Academia Working Group annually gathers the Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School.

The TAL Unionization Working Group (UWG) is an advocacy, support, and study group whose mission is to promote labor organizing for workers in architecture and related fields. While not ourselves a union, our members have played leading roles in the movement to organize architecture and designer workers since TAL’s inception. As our movement grows, we […]

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The Lobby’s participatory video campaign documents, makes accessible, and amplifies the voices and experiences of architectural workers through film artifacts that bolster organizing motions.

The Coop Network group of The Architecture Lobby researches, advocates, and shares knowledge of cooperative network models, worker-ownership structures, and cross-sector cooperation for architectural practice. The broader goals of these efforts are to increase worker equity, build stability during fluctuations of practice and life, build collective power for smaller firms, and—ultimately—transform the role of activist-architects in their communities.