The architect as worker : immaterial labor, the creative class, and the politics of design / edited by Peggy Deamer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deamer, Peggy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural practice--Social aspects.

Architectural practice.

Work--Social aspects.

Work.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 254 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Summary:

"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 profession. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Joan Ockman

Introduction / Peggy Deamer

Dynamic of the General Intellect / Franco Berardi

White Night Before a Manifesto / Metahaven

The Capitalist Origin of the Concept of Creative Work / Richard Biernacki

The Architect as Entrepreneurial Self : Hans Hollein's TV Performance 'Mobile Office' (1969) / Andreas Rumpfhuber

Work / Peggy Deamer

More for Less : Architectural Labor and Design Productivity / Paolo Tombesi

Form and Labor : Towards a History of Abstraction in Architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli

Writing Work : Changing Practices of Architectural Specification / Katie Lloyd Thomas and Tilo Amhoff

Working Globally : The Human Networks of Transnational Architectural Projects / Mabel O. Wilson, Jordan Carver, and Kadambari Baxi

Labor, Architecture, and the New Feudalism : Urban Space as Experience / Norman M. Klein

The Hunger Games : Architects in Danger / Alicia Carrió

Foucault's 'Environmental' Power : Architecture and Neoliberal Subjectivization / Manuel Shvartzberg

Three Strategies for New Value Propositions of Design Practice / Phillip G. Bernstein

Labor and Talent in Architecture / Thomas Fisher

The (Ac)Credit(ation) Card / Neil Leach

Afterword / Michael Sorkin

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472570505

1472570502

9781472570499

1472570499

OCLC:

891125939