[acc-cca-l] The Labour of Architecture: Book Launch + Panel Discussion (Toronto)

[Nicole Cohen]

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Cultural Workers Organize<https://culturalworkersorganize.org> and Another Story Bookshop present a book talk + panel discussion to celebrate the release of The Labor of Architecture: Creativity, Design, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness<https://nyupress.org/9781685901400/the-labor-of-architecture/> by C.G. Beck, which will be published by Monthly Review Press in October 2025.

>From Beck’s dual standpoint as architect and union organizer, The Labor of Architecture challenges the lingering myth of the architect as a singular genius, obsessively working alone in the studio. The Labor of Architecture addresses the new reality confronting designers – including exploitative workplaces, a financial crisis that ravaged the housing sector, sexist and racist hiring practices, and climate catastrophe – and advocates for a solidarity-based union movement to improve architects’ and designers’ profession and the society they help build.

Panelists will discuss architecture and class, the technological transformation of design work, studio education as a labour training model, the challenges of union organizing, and worker-owned architecture firms.

Panelists
C.G. Beck, IAM Union/Architectural Workers United (AWU) and Parsons School of Design, The New School

Adrian Blackwell, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Architects Against Housing Alienation

Yvonne Ip, OAA, Arise Architects Co-operative

The Architecture Lobby Tkaronto (TAL-To)

Sponsors: Another Story Bookshop and Cultural Workers Organize<https://culturalworkersorganize.org/>

Fri. Oct. 24, 4-6pm
Room DA200
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
1 Spadina Cres.

Free and open to the public

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-labour-of-architecture-book-launch-panel-discussion-tickets-1721135595899


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