| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: -- 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
