Architecture And Labor
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Architecture and Labor
Craft and Design: "Detail: The Subject of the Object" -- Architectural Work: "Work" -- Technology, BIM and New Work: "BIM and Parametricism" -- Architectural Production and Consumption: "Architectural Work in the Capitalist Context" -- Architectural Work: "Immaterial Labor" -- Antitrust Laws and Architectural Value: "The Sherman Antitrust Laws and the Profession of Architecture" -- Architectural Unionization: "The Missing Unions of Architectural Labor" -- Professionalism and the AIA: "Response to AIA Values" / with Keefer Dunn and Manuel Shvartzberg -- Other Nations' Professional Architectural Associations: "International Architectural Associations: Comparisons and Concerns" -- Architectural Contracts: "Contracts of Relations" -- Architectural Cooperativization: "Socializing Architecture Practice: From Small Firms to Cooperative Models of Organization" / with Aaron Cayer, Shawhin Roudbari, and Manuel Shvartzberg -- Beyond Architecture: "For an Architecture of Radical Democracy" / with Manuel Shvartzberg.
Architecture and Labor
Through a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers. What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new narratives, new organizations and new methods of production? How can we sit at the decision-making table to combat short-term real estate interests for longer-term social and ethical value? How can we pull architecture—its conceptualization, its pedagogy, and its enactment—into the 21st century without succumbing to its neoliberal paradigm? In addressing these controversial questions, Architecture and Labor brings contemporary discourses on creative labor to architecture, a discipline devoid of labor consciousness. This book addresses how, not just what, architects produce and focuses not on the past but on the present. It is sympathetic to the particularly intimate way that architects approach their design work while contextualizing that work historically, institutionally, economically, and ideologically. Architecture and Labor is sure to be a compelling read for pre-professional students, academics, and practitioners.
The Architect as Worker
Author: Peggy Deamer
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2015-07-30
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.