The Architecture Lobby
The Architecture Lobby (TAL) is a grassroots organization of architectural workers—including architects, landscape architects, planners, designers, students, and others—advocating for just labor practices and an equitable built environment. The organization understands solidarity among architectural workers and collective labor organizing as critical tools for confronting the white supremacist and heteropatriarchal systems embedded within the architecture and design fields.
TAL organizes through local chapters and national working groups connected by a central Organizing Committee (OC), working toward structural change across the profession. Local chapters self-organize projects and events that respond to the specific concerns of their members and local contexts.
In parallel, members form working groups around shared issues, typically meeting virtually. These working groups develop a wide range of projects and campaigns, including proposals for anti-capitalist models of architectural education, publications related to the Green New Deal, and organizer training for architectural workers seeking to unionize their workplaces.
Each local chapter is represented on the Organizing Committee by chapter stewards, and each working group by coordinators. The Organizing Committee meets virtually on the second Thursday of each month, with meetings open to all members. These meetings provide a forum to share information and coordinate TAL activities across scales and locations.
