Support Us!

As of December 21st, 2021, Architectural Workers United was made public. This sparked a nationwide, if not international, discussion about architectural labor and the value that workers have within an inherently exploitative system. AWU is a collaborative body of architectural workers from multiple firms striving to change the industry from the bottom-up.

For context, there is no current major private sector union of architects in the United States. At least one existed briefly before World War II, but there has not even been an election in almost 50 years. Beyond this, architects, while highly trained, highly educated, and highly skilled, are heavily exploited with unpaid internships, uncompensated overtime, and oftentimes misclassification of labor. Compounding the issue, architecture has traditionally been a field for the privileged creating a higher barrier to access the profession and make it more equitable. In other words: architects need unions.

It goes without saying that these are crazy times for so many different reasons, which makes it even more necessary for workers to band together and speak collectively. To follow the lead of workers at Kickstarter, Starbucks, The New Yorker, Kellogg, the New Museum, and so many more. To declare that our labor means more than it has been given credit for. That these are systemic issues that no individual workplace created, but can be changed if we act together.

We’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and so many of you have asked “how can I help?” In short, there’s a lot you can do. Below are a few ways that would help us directly, but also help everyone in the architecture industry.

Want to Contribute?

  • Donate

    Support the most diverse student body of design students in New York through the Dean’s Fund at CCNY SOA - under Designation select “Spitzer School of Architecture” - under Comments write “Dean’s Fund”

    Donate to and volunteer with the Open Architecture Collaborative

    Become a member of The Architecture Lobby with a contribution that works for you

  • Post (repost + post some more!)

    Share messages of support on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms

    Tag AWU Instagram and Twitter accounts

    Repost the New York Times article and other press from our Resources page

    Share this website far and wide!

  • Organizing Conversations

    Are you interested in this for your workplace?

    Are you friends with someone that is interested in this for their workplace?

    Are you interested but overwhelmed about how to start?

    Let us know and we'll connect you with our organizers who can help!

  • Learning Groups

    Not ready to organize? Form a learning group with friends from multiple offices!

    Let us know you’re interested and we’ll help set a group of people in your area

    We have connected groups with Organizing For Power trainings, book clubs, and many others

  • Support Selfie

    Print (or use a tablet or hold a piece of paper and photoshop it) a sign of your choosing from this file

    Add a message if you want to personalize it

    Take a selfie that shows your smiling face and your message clearly

    Send it to us via e-mail or post to your social media with AWU tagged

  • Sign in Solidarity

    Digitally co-sign our efforts in the form below to show your support for workers right to unionize

    Share a story that we can post to social media (it can be anonymous but public support is crucial)

    Share with friends who might support and/or have stories to share

Sign in Solidarity

If you support our mission, and would like to co-sign our efforts, please fill out this form. We’ll add your name to the list below periodically. Collectively we can speak louder together. We only need your name, but we’d love to keep in touch so leave your e-mail if you would like future updates. And if you are willing to share a story about your experience in the architecture industry that we can maybe repost on our socials, we’re all ears.

 

Supporters

 

The below individuals have expressed support for this effort. If you filled out the form above and do not see your name after 24 hours, let us know!

 

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A.L. Hu

Aaditya Todi

Aakanksha S

Aaliyah Walker

Aamena Ismail

Aaron Powers

Aaron Smith

Aaron Stone

Aaron Vaden-Youmans

Aayushi Joshi

Abbey Maxbauer

Abby Fuller

Abby Kuskin-Jorgenson

Abdirahman Abdi

Abigail Doseff

Adam Miller

Adam Ng

Adam Rolston

Aditi Agarwal

Afnan A

Ailyn Mendoza

Alan Organschi

Alana Davidson

Albert Chao

Albert L Refiti

Alejandro Duran

Alex Dillard

Alex Lin

Alex Schweitzer

Alex Wu

Alexander Middleton

Alexander Villa

Alexandra Alvarado

Alexandra Pappas-Kalber

Alexandria Batiste

Alexis Dorko

Alicia Chen

Alicia French

Aline Theodorakis

Alison Katz

Alix Herrera

Allen Gillers

Allison Jang

Allison Spinelli

Alyssa Vincent

Amanda Killian

Amanda Lyman

Amanda Thompson

Amanda Weinstein

American Guild of Musical Artists

Ameya Kaulaskar

Amy Dishman

Amy Gifford

Amy Liu

Amy Rose Spiegel

Amy Trick

Amy Suzuki

Ana Leopold

Ana Maestu

Ana María León

Ana Sotelo

Anastasia Leopold

Andrea Dietz

Andrea Herrera Betancourt

Andrea Kahn

Andreas Hadjisavva

Andreas Lenac

Andreas Rumpfhuber

Andrew Curtis

Andrew Daley

Andrew Heumann

Andrew Hunt

Andrew Lane

Andrew MacNair

Andrew Magner

Andrew Radford

Angela Castellano

Angelica Ronderos

Aniket Zarekar

Anna Alvemalm

Anna Carlson-Ziegler

Anna Katrina Lockwood

Anna Lim

Annachiara Sartor

Anne Davis

Annelise Aldrich

Annette Veliz

Annika Babra

Anon Anon

Antonina Dominici

Anya Sinha

Araceli Lopez

Ariel Scholten

Ashton Hamm

Asya Uzmay

Audrey Li

Aude Jomini

Augustas Lapinskas

Ava Omidvar

Avantika Verma

Averill Dimabuy

Avigaik Gilad

Azmara Asefa

B G

Barrie Cline

Behrang Geravand

Ben Erickson

Benjamin Hait

Benjamin Hergert

Beril Uzmen

Bethanie Jones

Betsy Clifton

Bhoomika Taneja

Biçem Kaya

Blair Begnaud

Blaire Haslop

Bob Lamm

Bonnie Kate Walker

Brandon Dalessandro

Brenda Freitas

Brenda Gonzalez Rodriguez

Brendan Albano

Brenden Bjerke

Brian Koehler

Brianne Nueslein

Brie McCarthy

Brigitte Kouo

Britta Wangstad

Brittany Utting

Brooke Brunside

Brooke Dexter

Bruno Peris Vila

Bryan Bell

Bryce Truitt

Bryony Roberts

Bz Zhang

Caitlin Dashiell

Caitlin Paridy

Caitlin Watson

Camila Reyes Alé

Carlos Rodríguez

Carlotta Ridolfo

Carly Levett

Carmen Hines

Caroline Bozzi

Caroline Vickery

Caroline Zavakos

Carolyn Francis

Carrie Smith

Casie Kowalski

Cassidy Brown

Cat Wilmes

Catherine Shih

Catherine Tomaine

Catherine Vera

Cecelia Thornton-Alson

Chao Li

Charles Dorrance-King

Charles Thompson

Charles Weak

Charlie Edmonds

Charles Ye

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

Chase Ashley

Chase Irvin

Chelsea Hyduk

Chloe Hawkins

Chloe Lockman

Chloe Nagraj

Chris Beck

Chris Brown

Chris Daemmrich

Chris Hickey

Chris Liao

Chris Maj

Chris Walton

Christian Kennedy

Christina Brown

Christina Kull

Christopher Otte

Christopher Reeh

Christopher Robbins

Christopher Sondi

Cindy Duan

Claire Fontaine

Clarisse Labro

 

Clark Reed

Clementine Jang

Cody Farris

Cody Rongo

Colin McDonald

Collette Block

Connie Chang

Connor Leidner

Corey Kingston

Corissa Leveille

Cricket Day

Cynthia Deng

Daisy Rojas-Romo

Dan GU

Dana Cuff

Daniel Barber

Daniel Fougere

Daniel Horn

Daniel Jacobs

Daniel Liu

Daniel Nemec

Daniel O'Reilly

Daniel Sanchez

Daniel Seidman

Daniela Casalino

Danielle A

Danielle Duryea

Danielle Willkens

Danny Ortega

Dante Furioso

Dara Dean

Darby Unruh

Dave Kerin

David Ascher

David Dahl

David Wallance

Dayna Tortorici

Derek Chang

Dhara Goradia

Diana Ariza

Diana Ferro

Diana Khalifeh

Dominic Aello

Donal Sheehan

Donncha O'Brien

Doug Breuer

Douglas Spencer

Drew Murphy

Dulce Arambula

Duy Vo

Edwin Lam

Elaina Berkowitz

Elaine Zhang

Elena Clarke

Elena Cortez

Elias Christo

Elif Bayram

Elisabeth Hoff

Elizabeth Corkery

Elizabeth Greene

Elizabeth Parker

Ellen Dunham-Jones

Elma Rama

Emilie Alongi

Emilio Todescato

Emily Lawrason

Emily Markwiese

Emily Vo Nguyen

Emily Young

Emine Halefoglu

Emma Costello

Emma Flynn

Emma Gracyk

Emma Kirby

Eneida Pinon

Eric Mason

Erik Lewis

Erika Tubbs

Erin Baer

Erin Que

Evan Collins

Evan Ward

Filip Tejchman

Florence Mangan

Florence Tang

Forest Sluzewski

Frances Mayo

Francesca Berni

Francesco Primus

Francisco Brown

Frank Mandell

Franziska Glockler

Gab K

Gabriel Boyajian

Gabriel de Souza Silva

Gabriel Halili

Gabriel Hernandez-Solano

Gabriela Arevalo

Gautami Kasat

Geneva Strauss-Wise

Gennifer Munoz

Geoffrey Eisele

George Barnett Johnston

Georgy Karpenko

Gernot Gleiss

Ginger Gilden

Ginny Lee

Giulia Notaro

Glynis Vidalon

Grace Friedhoff

Grant Wagner

Greg Allwine

Greg Caputo

Greg Warwick

Hailey Algoe

Haley Evans

Hannah Soules

Hashim Ajlouni

Hazel Cills

Hazel Villena

Ian Cook

Ian Svilokos

Ibiayi Briggs

Idael Cárdenas

Ilsa Falis

Ines Yupanqui

Íñigo Gutiérrez

Irem Cetin

Iris Kim

Irmak Turanli

Isabel Branas

Isabel Nicole Limpo

Isabela Ospina

Isabella Suppa

Isidora Concha Loyola

Izzy Krompegel-Anliker

Jack Hilchey

Jack Rusk

Jack Waine

Jackie Pileggi

Jackson St Clair

Jacob Bushmire

Jacob T Middleton

Jacqueline Mix

Jake Morgan

Jalisa Mills

James Strand

Jane Jordan Gravely

Janie Fulling

Jarred Randall

Jasmin Dickinson

Jasmine Hwang

Jasper Campshure

Javier Fernández

Jay Cephas

Jayne Spring

JC Perreras

Jeff Kerestes

Jeffrey Yates

Jennie Tolfa

Jennifer Chan

Jennifer Tai

Jess Myers

Jess O'Dell

Jesse mechanic

Jessica Haberstock

Jia Hu

Jia Tolentino

Jia Zhou Zhu

Jil Sanchez

Jillian Ceve

Jiwoo Park

Joan Humphreys

Joanie Tom

Joe Abreu

Johanna Brandt

John Daley

John Hilmes

John Lin

John Murphy

John Pampoukidis

John Sampson

John Yoon

Jonathan Visgaitis

Jordan Maurice

Jose Cotto

Jose Tijerina

Josh Harrison

Josh Shope

Joshua Barnett

Joshua Gritz

Joshua Katz

Joshua Kehl

Josie Cerbone

Joyce Hanlon

Juan Restrepo

Judith Wasserman

Julia Barksdale

Julia May

Julian Laenge

Juliana Barton

Juma Chowdhury

Justin Banda

Justin Holdahl

Justin Jed Zumel

Justin Lai

Justin Repath

Justine Heilner

Kaitlyn Pelletier

Karan Saharya

Kara Vujanovich

Karli Molter

Karmen Rivera

Karolina Bourou

Kate Barbaria

Katelyn Keen

Katherine Engleman

Katheryn Rupert

Kathlyn Kao

Kathryn Edwards

Katie LaRose

Katie Okamoto

Katie Rotman

Katty Cybulski

Katy Marino

Kyla Peterson

Kayla Seikkula

Kelsey Cohen

Kelsey Kiser

Kelsey Tyler

Keren Dillard

Kevin Jiang

Kevin Pierpaolo Nastasi

Kevin Rabinovich

Kin Ho

Kinjal Shah

Kirman Hanson

Kirsten Dahlquist

Kirstin Soby

Kristian Hager

Kurt Marsh

Kyle Beatty

Kyle D'Mello

Kyle O'Connor

Kyle Sturgeon

Larissa Hennessy

Laura Rodriguez

Laura Shifley

Lauren Hale

Lauren Hamer

Lauren Hanna

Lauren McNamara

Lauren Peterson

Laurent Lisimachio

Lea Anne Leatherwood

Leah Beckmann

Leah Collins

Leandro Yuan

LeeAnn Pallett Smith

Lesley Conroy

Lesley Loo

Lindsay Hand

Lindsay Harkema

Lindsey Carpenter

Lindsey Von Seggern

Lindsey Weber

Lisa Angulo

Lisa Sauve

LIzzie Rothwell

Logan Halterman

Lori Brown

Luca Michalak

Luca Scherraus

Luis Garcia Flores

Luz Auyon

Lydia Kiehborth

M A

M.C. Overholt

Maciej Kusmierski

Mackenzie Lin

Maddie August

Madeline Kirschner

Madeline Toth

Madison DeHaven

Magda Wala

Maggie Lee

Mahdi Sabbagh

Maitane Romagosa

Mansi Mehta

Mara Caoile

Marcel Alvarez

Marcel Merwin

Marcus Miller

Maria A

Maria Antonia Franco

Maria Gonzalez

Maria Grina

Maria Kupriyanova

Maria Levitskaya

Marian Prado

Mariana Diaz

Mariana Guarapo

Marie Jacobson Noyes

Marisa Cortright

Marissa Allen

Marissa Zane

Mariya Radeva

Mark Heinrichs

Marta Llor

Marta Magnaguagno

Martha Kriley

Marti Gottsch

Mary Beth O'Quinn

Mary Ellen Fraher

Mason Christensen

Massimiliano Malagò

Mathew Hall

Matías Montenegro Sandoval

Matt Carona

Matt Grosser

Matt Khinda

Matthew Azen

Matthew Davis

Matthew Shufelt

Maura Leonard

Max Dowd

Max Pozen

Maxwell Rodencal

Maya Gamble

Maya Porath

Maya Stuhlbarg

McKenna Mitchell

Meet Dhanesha

Meg Ward

Megan Friedman

Mehnaj Tabassum

Melanie Monastirsky

Melissa Anderson

Melissa Fedorchenko

Melissa Galen

Melissa Gutiérrez Soto

Melos Shtaloja

Michael Abrahamson

Michael Evola

Michael Ferguson

Michael Kulikowski

Michael Robinson Cohen

Michael Russo

Michael Scarmack

Michael Villarreal

Michael Weitzmann

Michaela Delasanta

Michel S

Michelle Peña

Michelle Shofet

Mig Rod

Mikhail Kim

Millie Goldrup

Molly Chen

Molly Ono

Monique Davis

Muhammad Tayyab

Nabila Morales

Nadia Habib

Nadia Johnson

Nadyeli Quiroz Radaelli

Natalie Adams

Natalie Punzak

Natalie Sandelli

Nathan Erwin

Neda M-Rad

Neelu Shruti

Neha Bhargava

Neha Hegde

Nia Smith

Nicholas Cecchi

Nichole Tortorici

Nick Allen

Nick Jeffway

Nick LoCicero

Nick Reddon

Nicole Ginard

Nikhitha Velagapudi

Niko Theofylaktos

Nita Sula

Nora May

Nuti Dave

Olivia Larson

Olivia Ouellette

Omer Khan

Orli Hakanoglu

Pablo Rivero Bernal

Paolo Sant'Ambrogio

Patrick Daurio

Peggy Deamer

Peter Dumbadze

Peter Yau

Phillip Seclen

Phoebe Crisman

Phoebe Webster

Polina Timchenko

Pooneh Sadri Manesh

Pranjali Desai

Pria Hawlader

Proey Liao

Quade Gallagher

Quy Le

Rachel LeFevre

Rachael Onserio

Ramses Gonzalez

Raymond Dwyer

Rebecca Chen

Rebecca Damon

Rebecca Hinch

Rebecca Vella

Rebekah Lee

Reina Suyeon Mun

Rene Duplantier

Richard Koszeghy

Rio Morales

Robert Nilsen

Robert Peterson

Robin Turansky

Ross David Weiner

Rutuja Badve

Ryan Butler

Ryan Consbruck

Ryan Leifield

Ryan Mason

Ryan Stoddard

Ryker Hoy

Sabrina Ahmed

Sahar Kubba

Sai Joshi

Sam Sidersky

Sam Vanderhoop Lee

Samantha Lee Chan

Samantha Garfield

Samantha Schneider

Sameeksha Gulati

Sami Sikanas

Sammi Howard

Samuel Landon

Samuel Lee

San Yoon

Sanchit Lal

Sandra Velasquez

Saqib Mansoor

Sarah Chanut

Sarah Dunham

Sarah Ebert

Sarah Elstien

Sarah LaBarr

Sarah Leonard

Sarah Ramsey

Sarah Reid

Sasha Topolnytska

Sben Korsh

Scott Hay

Scott Starrett

Sean Esrafily

Sean Russo

Seanna Walsh

Sebastian Reiter

Sebastian Torres

Serena Lousich

Shahal Ahmed

Shane Ah-Siong

Shannen Ferreira

Shannon Scott

Shota Vashakmadze

Shreya Dwivedi

Shriya Shendge

Sidney Tsao

Siobhan Steen

SJ Kwon

Skylar Nieman

Soheb Javaid

Sonny Han

Sophie Chien

Sophie Pacelko

Stanley Schultz

Stefan Klecheski

Stefania Palmyra Geraki

Steffi Bandril

Stella Choi

Stella Blue Porzungolo

Stephanie Almendarez

Stephanie Tabb

Stephen Henderson-Cadigan

Stephen Vallimarescu

Steve Gaissert

Steven Putt

Sydney Gargiulo

Tabea Scheithauer

Taeseo Park

Tamar Samir

Tanner Field

Tarishe Singhal

Taylor Hallam

Taylor Minnick

Taylor Scott

Taylor Um

Tessa Andriopoulos

Theodore Teichman

Thom Medek

Thomas Krizmanic

Thomas Provost

Thuy-Dung Tran

Tiffannie Shively

Tim Strand

Timothy Eckels

Timothy Khalifa

Todd Powell

Tom Maindiaux

Tony McGrail

Tyler Goss

Tyler Murphy

Tyler Myrick

Unsha B

Urh Rucigaj Roberts

Uttara Ram

Valérie Lechêne

Vanessa Magos

Vanessa Thill

Vatsal Upadhyay

Vera Sacchetti

Veronika Suárez

Victoria McGovern

Vineet Diwadkar

Vinita Kuhikar

Violette de la Selle

Virginia Ofer

Virginia Sanford

Vruti Desai

Waqas Jawaid

Wendy Harder

Wes Hiatt

Whitney Evans

Whitney Voss

Will L

Will Smith

William John Smith III

William Siegel

Xavier King

Xiaoyin Li

Yaozhen Liu

Vennice De Guzman

Yetzi Verónica Tafoya Torres

Yin-Yu Fong

Yohana Ansari-Thomas

Yuliya Ilizarov

Zach Beale

Zachary Gaudet

Zain Radaideh

Zeph Ruggles

Zeyu Duan

Zhangzheng Yang

Ziyan Zhuang

Zlatan Sehovic