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HDR Chicago on Learning From Other Industries, Employee Empowerment, and Representing the Community

2019-10-11T06:00:00-04:00

Over the past few years, the field has received a growing amount of attention that has highlighted long-standing labor issues within the architecture industry, ranging from unsustainable pay models to unwelcoming work environments. Looking for an alternative, the Architecture Lobby created the Just Design Initiative, which recognizes fair labor practices in architecture. Beginning with nominations submitted by employees, and followed by an evaluation process, the team looked at practices that can serve as models of a new status quo within the profession.

Archinect has teamed up with the Just Design crew to profile firms across the country that meet the initiative's standards. Whether it is a family-friendly work schedule or a health coverage plan that goes above and beyond, the series spotlights practices that honor the basic rights of their employees and can serve as exemplary models of what should become standard for the field.

How Shore Point Architecture Values Its Team Members

2019-08-09T07:00:00-04:00

BLUR Workshop Wants Their Employees to Think Like Owners

2019-05-08T12:36:00-04:00

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.

Challenging Architecture's Grueling Work Culture, Kimberly Neuhaus Carves Out Her Own Space

2019-03-20T11:56:00-04:00

Over the past few years, the field has received a growing amount of attention that has highlighted long standing labor issues within the architecture industry, ranging from unsustainable pay models to unwelcoming work environments. Looking for an alternative, the Architecture Lobby created the Just Design Initiative, which recognizes fair labor practices in architecture. Beginning with nominations submitted by employees, and followed by an evaluation process, the team looked at practices that can serve as models of a new status quo within the profession. Archinect has teamed up with the Just Design crew to profile firms across the country that meet the initiative's standards. Whether it is a family-friendly work schedule or a health coverage plan that goes above and beyond, the series spotlights practices that honor the basic rights of their employees and can serve as exemplary models of what should become standard for the field.

Based in New Haven, Gray Organschi Architecture Creates a Working Environment for Critical Engagement with Architecture

2019-01-21T10:00:00-05:00

At McMillan Pazdan Smith, Great Culture Produces Great Work

2019-01-08T14:05:00-05:00

How Aamodt/Plumb Architects is Bringing the Slow Movement to Architecture

2018-12-17T14:49:00-05:00

How Elizabeth Eason Architecture Achieves Work-Life Balance

2018-12-10T12:13:00-05:00

Over the past few years, the field has received a growing amount of attention that has highlighted longstanding labor issues within the architecture industry, ranging from unsustainable pay models to unwelcoming work environments. That’s why it is “more urgent than ever,” says Peggy Deamer (who started the Architecture Lobby to tackle such issues), that “we have a system that highlights labor matters, that fights for fairness and not management.”

Looking for an alternative, the group created the Just Design Initiative, which recognizes fair labor practices in architecture. Beginning with nominations submitted by employees, and followed by an evaluation process, the team looked at practices that can serve as models of a new status quo within the profession. Archinect has teamed up with the Just Design crew to profile firms across the country that meet the initiative's standards. Whether it is a family-friendly work schedule or a health coverage plan that goes above and beyond, the se...

Gaming the System: role-playing spatial and political change

2016-09-01T09:13:00-04:00

"[The] sovereign art, of course, will be the one whose laws rule over the relations among men in their totality. That is, Politics.

Nothing is alien to Politics, because nothing is alien to the superior art that rules the relations among men.

Medicine, war, architecture, etc. – minor and major arts, all without exception – are subject to, and make up, that sovereign art." — Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed, 1973