The Labour of Architecture: Book Launch + Panel Discussion

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC-04:00

1 Spadina Crescent | Toronto

Another Story Bookshop
Publisher/HostAnother Story Bookshop
The Labour of Architecture: Book Launch + Panel Discussion
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Join us for a book talk + panel discussion to celebrate the release of The Labor of Architecture, by C. G. Beck.
About this Event

Join us for a book talk + panel discussion to celebrate the release of by C.G. Beck, 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

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

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

1 Spadina Crescent, 1 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Canada

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