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For What It’s Worth: Unpaid Overtime Among Future Architects

2021-04-28T16:22:00-04:00

Over recent months, a conversation about unpaid overtime has risen to the top of the United Kingdom’s architectural discourse, spurred by lobbying from the Future Architects Front. We took a closer look at how the latest debate began, what it uncovered about the prevalence of unpaid overtime in architecture, and what it means for the future of unpaid overtime in the UK and abroad.

Get F*^king Paid

2019-06-17T12:56:00-04:00

Unpaid internships are a systemic issue, not an architectural one. They are a symptom of the relationship between markets, labor, and value. Calling for an erasure of unpaid internships is calling for ethics inside a system that rewards exploitation. How can we change this? What tools do we have to evaluate our options as they are right now?

The Architecture Lobby's Statement on Unpaid Internships

2019-04-25T11:10:00-04:00

Over the last few weeks, the question of unpaid internships in architecture has blown up across industry media. The Architecture Lobby is pleased to see an issue we’ve been raising for a long time gain traction in the mainstream. And, we’re pleased to see concrete changes being made: the Serpentine Gallery has prohibited unpaid interns from working on its pavilion, and Elemental, the firm headed by Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena, has ended its almost decade-long unpaid internship program.