The architect as worker : immaterial labor, the creative class, and the politics of design /

"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, p...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Deamer, Peggy (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Subjects:	Architectural practice > Social aspects. Work > Social aspects. ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. ARCHITECTURE / General. ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice. DESIGN / History & Criticism.

Table of 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.