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The Architect as Worker - Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design (Hardcover)
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The Architect as Worker - Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design (Hardcover)
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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, 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 practice of architecture. 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.
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