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And Now - Architecture Against a Developer Presidency (Essays on the Occasion of Trump`s Inauguration) (Paperback)
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And Now - Architecture Against a Developer Presidency (Essays on the Occasion of Trump`s Inauguration) (Paperback)
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The election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the president
of the United States of America have provoked an unprecedented
intensity of reflection in virtually all academic disciplines. The
professions of architecture and planning, faced with the phenomenon
of a self-proclaimed "builder-in-chief," have found themselves
facing a series of fundamental questions, both old and new. How
should we think, teach, and practice under a developer presidency?
What sort of walls will we and won't we choose to build? What are
our commitments of critical thought, and what obligations should we
turn our energies toward? The essays gathered in And Now explore
the nature of architecture's many long-standing complicities.
Architecture coordinates colossal expenditures (of material, of
energy); it scripts forms of labor (in its construction, in its
operation, and in the programs it houses); and it is both a
repository and generator of capital. Architecture participates,
centrally, in defining modes of life, whether for the privileged or
the dispossessed-designing and building the boundaries between the
"haves" and the "have-nots." This fundamental reality of
architectural practice need not inspire either nihilism or
defensiveness but should rather be understood, quite simply, as the
terrain we navigate. Naming these complicities and the injustices
they perpetuate is a first step toward addressing them.
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