Architecture and labor /
Through a collection of thirteen essays, 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 n...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Through a collection of thirteen essays, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367343514 0367343517 9780367343507 0367343509 |