Commenter says the architecture profession is "undervalued and underpaid"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating plans by SHoP Architects' employees to form a union of architecture workers in response to an alleged culture of "endless overtime and deadlines" and discussing other top stories.
Employees of New York-based SHoP Architects have announced plans to form the first union of architecture workers since the 1940s.
Architectural Workers United filed an election petition with the National Labour Relations Board on 28 December, beginning the formal process of organising a union.
"The business structure of architecture has long been exploitive"
Readers are torn. "Good," said Chris on one hand.
"It is admirable," replied Christopher Osborn. "The crazy deadlines and all-nighters start in college, but they never stop. Now it's not the professors who are doing this, it's the clients." "The profession is undervalued and underpaid," continued Ferran. "That is a fact. It is not just SHoP, it is the profession in general. The AIA needs to take note and come up with sustainable solutions to this issue."
Archi agreed: "The business structure of architecture has long been exploitive and a silver spoon man's game, mainly because we constantly defer risk to others. Our profession undercuts one another and proliferates free work through advanced proposals and competitions.
"We have the education and testing requirements similar to the medical field and get paid penni...
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