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Marisa Cortright’s new book “Can this be? Surely this cannot be?” argues for architects to build working class solidarity

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has become the UK’s largest architecture practice to be owned by its employees. Last month, shares in the 500-strong company

Employees of New York-based SHoP Architects have announced plans to form the US's first union of architecture workers since the 1940s.

After years of exploitation, how can architects fight for their labor rights and what is currently being done to ensure them?

We chart the architecture and design activism initiatives pushing the industry towards a better future.

The governments current consultation on toilets, entitled Toilet provision for men and women: call for evidence, places the provision of "gender-neutral" desegregated facilities and the safety of trans and gender non-conforming people who rely on them, under threat. This consultation is dog-whistle politics, motivated not by improving access to public toilets, but in suppressing the rights of trans and gender non-conforming people. From the governments pitiful reform of the Gender Recognition A...

By Jordan Marshall2021-01-08T17:33:00+00:00 On Architecture in U-turn over directive to go into office after Building Design flagged workers concerns A RIBA chartered practice that told staff to go into the office each day despite the covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown has conceded that they will now be allowed to work from home, after Building Design highlighted employees concerns. On Architecture, a practice with studios in London and Kent, had told staff to continue working in its off...

By Jordan Marshall2021-01-08T15:23:00+00:00 On Architecture in U-turn over directive to go into office after Building flagged workers concerns A RIBA chartered practice that told staff to go into the office each day despite the covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown has conceded that they will now be allowed to work from home, after Building highlighted employees concerns. On Architecture, a practice with studios in London and Kent, had told staff to continue working in its offices and open ...