Described by Bloomberg as a "significant platform and voice in the design of built environments", it is an independent organization.

[1][2][3] The Architectural Uprising has chapters in Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Romania, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Syria, Ukraine and other countries, as well as several groups for regions and cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm, and one for the western United States.

[5] The Kasper Kalkon prize for Sweden's ugliest newly built house was inspired by the British Carbuncle Cup, which was instituted in 2006 after a statement by Charles III (then Prince of Wales)[6] that a modernist addition to the National Gallery in London resembled "a boil [carbuncle] on the face of a dear old friend".

[7] The Architecture Uprising coined the term "fake view", which means that digital vision images of planned buildings are created in a way that is impossible to realize, which in turn leads to the real building looking completely different from what the vision image predicted.

In 2021, the new Växjö municipal building by architect White Arkitekter won the prize for the most lying fake view of the year.