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Architecture and Labor
About This Book
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 architectureâits conceptualization, its pedagogy, and its enactmentâinto 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Charts
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Craft and Design: âDetail: The Subject of the Objectâ
- 2 Architectural Work: âWorkâ
- 3 Technology, BIM and New Work: âBIM and Parametricismâ
- 4 Architectural Production and Consumption: Architectural Work in the Capitalist Context
- 5 Architectural Work: Immaterial Labor
- 6 Antitrust Laws and Architectural Value: âThe Sherman Antitrust Laws and the Profession of Architectureâ
- 7 Architectural Unionization: âThe Missing Unions of Architectural Laborâ
- 8 Professionalism and the AIA: âResponse to AIA Valuesâ with Keefer Dunn and Manuel Shvartzberg
- 9 Other Nationsâ Professional Architectural Associations: âInternational Architectural Associations: Comparisons and Concernsâ
- 10 Architectural Contracts: âContracts of Relationsâ
- 11 Architectural Cooperativization: âSocializing Architecture Practice: From Small Firms to Cooperative Models of Organizationâ with Aaron Cayer, Shawhin Roudbari, and Manuel Shvartzberg
- 12 Beyond Architecture: âFor an Architecture of Radical Democracyâ with Manuel Shvartzberg
- 13 Coda
- Afterword
- Index