Architecture—as a profession and pedagogy—has always had a complicated relationship to labor. As a practice, architecture requires inputs, time, and effort from many people with many different types of knowledge. From the design and development of architectural drawings in office settings, to the construction of buildings on site, to the production of architectural materials across the world, building projects are accumulations of different forms of labor, manufacturing capacities, and expertise. This seminar analyzes and investigates the labor(s) required to create architecture, from design through construction. We locate the laboring bodies that produce building projects and the knowledge that surrounds them. And we interrogate how the profession understands its past, present, and possible future relations to labor. The first half of the semester considers architecture’s shift from a building practice to a knowledge practice. We frame the architect as a worker and closely analyze the types of worker inequality found within the office and profession. The second half of the semester focuses on the long history of forced and enslaved labor on construction sites and the persistence of it in the material supply chain.