作者简介
Peggy Deamer is Professor of Architecture and Assistant Dean at Yale University, USA, and a visiting scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
内容简介
Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discour se and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice" ( pro fessionalism, profit, technology, design, craft, and building) com bin e to characterize the work performed in the architectural office . Nor has there been a deeper evaluation of the unspoken and historically-deter mi ned my ths that assign cultural, symbolic, and economic value to architectural labor.
The Architect as Worker presents a range of essays e x ploring the issues central to architectural labor. These include questions about the nature of design work; immaterial and creative labor and how it gets cate go rized, spatialized, and mo net ized 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 ul tim ate 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.
Peggy Deamer is Professor of Architecture and Assistant Dean at Yale University, USA, and a visiting scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
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