AR February 2023: Labour

The AR stands in solidarity with striking workers across the UK, downing their tools to build a better collective future. As this burgeoning labour movement fights back, we are sending our Labour issue to press – looking at the invisible work that maintains our cities, which only becomes visible once strike action reveals it is a necessity. Architects design workplaces: offices, factories, schools and shops, but construction sites too. Architects are workers, but they are not the workers who build our cities. In the February issue of the AR, we consider architectural work in its broadest sense: construction, maintenance, craft and design.