Architecture Workers: Organizing for Change is a feature-length documentary that follows members of The Architecture Lobby, a grassroots labor organization, as they confront an industry notorious for long hours, unpaid overtime, and precarity. Through seven episodes, the film traces the historical roots of architectural labor struggles and highlights contemporary strategies—unionizing, forming cooperatives, organizing academia, going beyond licensure, expanding solidarity, and more—that challenge systemic inequities in the profession. Drawing on stories from architectural workers, educators, and allied movements, the film reveals both the personal costs of architectural work and the collective power emerging to transform it. Each episode culminates in a call to action, designed to spark dialogue and inspire organizing in workplaces, schools, and communities. Rooted in the US but resonant globally, the film situates architecture within broader struggles for social and economic justice, reimagining how the built environment can serve equity, dignity, and collective liberation.

Valérie Lechêne and Andrew Daley are member-organizers within TAL and the current working group stewards of the What’s your story? campaign. Together with the current member-organizers of the working group, they are grateful, beholden, and solidary to the current and former member-organizers of TAL and specifically towards the member-organizers of the following TAL bodies: Grievance Committee 2020; JustDesign Working Group; Administrative, Strategic, & Organizing Committees 2020–21; Administrative, Strategic, & Organizing Committees 2021–22; and Administrative, Strategic, & Organizing Committees 2022–23.

The Architecture Lobby (TAL) is an international organization of architectural workers, planners, and designers advocating for the value of architecture in the general publicand for architectural work within the discipline. The Architecture Lobby believes that power in a society should be democratic and widely distributed and that changes to a humanitarian built environment must be sited in organizing labor. It believes that the work architects do and the capitalist society in which we work need structural change to properly serve spatial justice. As long as architecture tolerates abusive practices in the office and the construction site, it cannot insist on its role in fighting for public safety, environmental health, or an equitable society.