The Architect as Worker (eBook, PDF)

Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design
Redaktion: Deamer, Peggy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice" (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft, and building) combine to characterize the work performed in the architectural office. Nor has there been a deeper evaluation of the unspoken and historically-determined myths that assign cultural, symbolic, and economic value to architectural labor.

The Architect as Worker presents a range of essays exploring the issues central to architectural labor. These include questions about the nature of design work; immaterial and creative labor and how it gets categorized, spatialized, and monetized within architecture; the connection between parametrics and BIM and labor; theories of architectural work; architectural design as a cultural and economic condition; entrepreneurialism; and the possibility of ethical and rewarding architectural practice.

The book is a call-to-arms, and its ultimate goal is to change the practice of architecture. It will strike a chord with architects, who will recognize the struggle of their profession; with students trying to understand the connections between work, value, and creative pleasure; and with academics and cultural theorists seeking to understand what grounds the discipline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472570529
• Artikelnr.: 42971162

Autorenporträt

Peggy Deamer is Professor of Architecture and Assistant Dean at Yale University, USA, and a visiting scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Joan Ockman
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
USA Introduction - Peggy Deamer
Yale University
USA Part I: The Commodification of Design Labor 1. Dynamic of the General Intellect - Franco Berardi
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Milano
Italy 2. White Night before a Manifesto - Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk
Metahaven
The Netherlands 3. The Capitalist Origin of the Concept of Creative Work - Richard Biernacki
University of California
San Diego
USA 4. The Architect as Entrepreneurial Self: Hans Hollein's TV Performance 'Mobile Office' (1969) - Andreas Rumpfhuber
Expanded Design
Vienna
Austria Part II: The Concept of Architectural Labor 5. Work - Peggy Deamer
Yale University
USA 6. More for Less: Architectural Labor and Design Productivity - Paolo Tombesi
University of Melbourne
Australia 7. Form and Labor: Towards a History of Abstraction in Architecture - Pier Vittorio Aureli
Architectural Association
UK Part III: Design(ers)/Build(ers) 8. Writing Work: Changing Practices of Architectural Specification - Katie Lloyd Thomas
Newcastle University
UK and Tilo Amhoff
University of Brighton
UK 9. Working Globally: The Human Networks of Transnational Architectural Projects - Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia University
USA)
Jordan Carver (University at Buffalo School of Architecture
USA) and Kadambari Baxi (Barnard College
USA) Part IV: The Construction of the Commons 10. Labor
Architecture
and the New Feudalism: Urban Space as Experience - Norman M. Klein (California Institute of the Arts
USA) 11. The Hunger Games: Architects in Danger - Alicia Carrió (Carrió Studio
Spain) 12. Foucault's 'Environmental' Power: Architecture and Neoliberal Subjectivization - Manuel Shvartzberg (University of Columbia
USA) Part V: The Profession 13. Three Strategies for New Value Propositions of Design Practice - Phillip G. Bernstein (Yale University
USA and Autodesk
USA) 14. Labor and Talent in Architecture - Thomas Fisher (University of Minnesota
USA) 15. The (Ac)Credit(ation) Card - Neil Leach (University of Southern California
USA) Afterword - Michael Sorkin (Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
CUNY
USA) Index