Architect as Worker

Peggy Deamer is Professor of Architecture and Assistant Dean at Yale University, USA, and a visiting scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

• Foreword - Joan Ockman, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, USAIntroduction - Peggy Deamer, Yale University, USAPart I: The Commodification of Design Labor1. Dynamic of the General Intellect - Franco Berardi, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano, Italy2. White Night before a Manifesto - Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk, Metahaven, The Netherlands3. The Capitalist Origin of the Concept of Creative Work - Richard Biernacki, University of California, San Diego, USA4. The Architect as Entrepreneurial Self: Hans Hollein's TV Performance 'Mobile Office' (1969) - Andreas Rumpfhuber, Expanded Design, Vienna, AustriaPart II: The Concept of Architectural Labor5. Work - Peggy Deamer, Yale University, USA6. More for Less: Architectural Labor and Design Productivity - Paolo Tombesi, University of Melbourne, Australia7. Form and Labor: Towards a History of Abstraction in Architecture - Pier Vittorio Aureli, Architectural Association, UKPart III: Design(ers)/Build(ers)8. Writing Work: Changing Practices of Architectural Specification - Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University, UK and Tilo Amhoff, University of Brighton, UK9. Working Globally: The Human Networks of Transnational Architectural Projects - Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia University, USA), Jordan Carver (University at Buffalo School of Architecture, USA) and Kadambari Baxi (Barnard College, USA)Part IV: The Construction of the Commons10. Labor, Architecture, and the New Feudalism: Urban Space as Experience - Norman M. Klein (California Institute of the Arts, USA)11. The Hunger Games: Architects in Danger - Alicia Carrió (Carrió Studio, Spain)12. Foucault's 'Environmental' Power: Architecture and Neoliberal Subjectivization - Manuel Shvartzberg (University of Columbia, USA)Part V: The Profession13. Three Strategies for New Value Propositions of Design Practice - Phillip G. Bernstein (Yale University, USA and Autodesk, USA)14. Labor and Talent in Architecture - Thomas Fisher (University of Minnesota, USA)15. The (Ac)Credit(ation) Card - Neil Leach (University of Southern California, USA)Afterword - Michael Sorkin (Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY, USA)Index

This landmark volume will jumpstart conversations that are long overdue in the world of architecture. Its contributors help us understand the profession’s blind spot about labor while generating sharp insights on a full range of fundamental questions: Who constructs the buildings? Who renders the designs? Who gets paid, and who doesn’t?