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

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"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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Deamer, Peggy (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Series:Online access with DDA: Askews (Architecture)
Subjects:
Architectural practice > Social aspects.
Work > Social aspects.
Travail > Aspect social.
Theory of architecture.
Architecture: professional practice.
Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
DESIGN > History & Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
Architectural practice > Social aspects
Work > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • FC; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Joan Ockman; Introduction: Peggy Deamer; Part I: The commodification ofdesign labor; Chapter 1. Dynamic of the general intellect: Franco Berardi ; Chapter 2. White night before a manifesto: Metahaven; Chapter 3. The capitalist origin of the concept of creative work: Richard Biernacki; Chapter 4. The architect as entrepreneurial self : Hans Hollein's TV performance "Mobile Office"(1969): Andreas Rumpfhuber; Part II: The concept ofarchitectural labor.
  • Chapter 5. Work: Peggy DeamerChapter 6. More for less: Architectural labor and design productivity: Paolo Tombesi; Chapter 7. Form and labor: Toward a history of abstraction in architecture: Pier Vittorio Aureli; Part III: Design(ers)/Build(ers); Chapter 8. Writing work: Changing practices of architectural specification: Katie Lloyd Thomas and Tilo Amhoff; Chapter 9. Working globally: The human networks of transnational architectural projects: Mabel O. Wilson, Jordan Carver, and Kadambari Baxi; Part IV: The construction of thecommons.
  • Chapter 10. Labor, architecture, and the new feudalism: Urban space as experience: Norman M. KleinChapter 11. The hunger games: Architects in danger: Alicia Carrió; Chapter 12. Foucault's "environmental" power: Architecture and neoliberal subjectivization: Manuel Shvartzberg; Part V: The profession; Chapter 13. Three strategies for new value propositions of design practice: Phillip G. Bernstein; Chapter 14. Labor and talent in architecture: Thomas Fisher; Chapter 15. The (ac)credit(ation) card: Neil Leach; Afterword: Michael Sorkin; Index.

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