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The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

Editat de Professor Peggy Deamer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iul 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472570505
ISBN-10: 1472570502
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 16 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Explores technological, economic and ethical issues that are increasingly critical to practicing professionals as well as to students about to begin their professional careers

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

ForewordJoan Ockman, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, USAIntroductionPeggy Deamer, Yale University, USAPart I: The Commodification of Design Labor1. Dynamic of the General IntellectFranco Berardi, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano, Italy2. White Night before a ManifestoDaniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk, Metahaven, The Netherlands3. The Capitalist Origin of the Concept of Creative WorkRichard Biernacki, University of California, San Diego, USA4. The Architect as Entrepreneurial Self: Hans Hollein's TV Performance 'Mobile Office' (1969)Andreas Rumpfhuber, Expanded Design, Vienna, AustriaPart II: The Concept of Architectural Labor5. WorkPeggy Deamer, Yale University, USA6. More for Less: Architectural Labor and Design ProductivityPaolo Tombesi, University of Melbourne, Australia7. Form and Labor: Towards a History of Abstraction in ArchitecturePier Vittorio Aureli, Architectural Association, UKPart III: Design(ers)/Build(ers)8. Writing Work: Changing Practices of Architectural SpecificationKatie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University, UK and Tilo Amhoff, University of Brighton, UK9. Working Globally: The Human Networks of Transnational Architectural ProjectsMabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, USA, Jordan Carver, University at Buffalo School of Architecture, USA and Kadambari Baxi, Barnard College, USAPart IV: The Construction of the Commons10. Labor, Architecture, and the New Feudalism: Urban Space as ExperienceNorman M. Klein, California Institute of the Arts, USA11. The Hunger Games: Architects in DangerAlicia Carrió, Carrió Studio, Spain12. Foucault's 'Environmental' Power: Architecture and Neoliberal SubjectivizationManuel Shvartzberg, University of Columbia, USAPart V: The Profession13. Three Strategies for New Value Propositions of Design PracticePhillip G. Bernstein, Yale University, USA and Autodesk, USA14. Labor and Talent in ArchitectureThomas Fisher, University of Minnesota, USA15. The (Ac)Credit(ation) CardNeil Leach, University of Southern California, USAAfterwordMichael Sorkin, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY, USAIndex

Recenzii

This landmark volume will jumpstart conversations that are long overdue in the world of architecture. Its contributors help us understand the profession's blind spot about labor while generating sharp insights on a full range of fundamental questions: Who constructs the buildings? Who renders the designs? Who gets paid, and who doesn't?
Compared to endless speculations about the implications of digital technologies for architecture, almost no attention has been given to the much more fundamental question of architecture's relationship to recent changes in the structural organisation of labour. The Architect as Worker is a pioneering investigation of this topical but as yet little discussed issue. Drawing upon new theories of labour and of the development of the 'knowledge economy' - in particular Maurizio Lazzarato's concept of immaterial labour - these essays set out an agenda for us to consider what kind of work architecture might be under present day conditions.
The Architect as Worker is completely relevant to understanding the architect's current professional and political predicament. At once historical, theoretical, practical and clear-eyed, it should start urgent conversations across the design disciplines, not just architecture.
Architects, students, academics-workers of all kinds-concerned with the question of how the fragmented, homogenized, financialized, blind field that is architecture can simultaneously exploit and allow us to produce new forms of knowledge, need this book. It represents a point of departure for research and a call to act.