Our Manifesto
- Build worker power and collective agency through unions and cooperatives.
- A living wage, benefits, job security, and wage transparency across the discipline.
- No more free labor; no unpaid internships, unpaid overtime, or unpaid competitions.
- Center the importance of labor in our understanding of architecture. Architecture is work!
- Stop peddling buildings as products. Demand compensation based on the value and impact our work creates.
- End oppression based on gender within and enabled by the discipline.
- Confront the complicity of architecture in racism. Confront racism in our workplaces.
- Design for the full spectrum of human life. Universal design is not an afterthought.
- Challenge the concept of licensure. Expand the right to practice.
- Celebrate the collective process of producing architecture. Demystify architecture as the work of a solo creative genius.
- Climate justice as the basis of all architectural work. There can be no sustainable future without sustainable labor practices.
- Fight for democratic alternatives to the capitalist system of development.