The Architect As Worker
Download and Read The Architect As Worker full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free The Architect As Worker ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Architect as Worker
Author | : Peggy Deamer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1472570510 |
Download The Architect as Worker Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
The Architect as Worker Related Books
Pages: 291
Pages: 188
Pages: 0
Pages: 311
Pages: 362