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.

• ForewordJoan Ockman, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, USAIntroductionPeggy Deamer, Yale University, USAPart I: The Commodification of Design Labor1. Dynamic of the General IntellectFranco Berardi, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano, Italy2. White Night before a ManifestoDaniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk, Metahaven, The Netherlands3. The Capitalist Origin of the Concept of Creative WorkRichard 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. WorkPeggy Deamer, Yale University, USA6. More for Less: Architectural Labor and Design ProductivityPaolo Tombesi, University of Melbourne, Australia7. Form and Labor: Towards a History of Abstraction in ArchitecturePier Vittorio Aureli, Architectural Association, UKPart III: Design(ers)/Build(ers)8. Writing Work: Changing Practices of Architectural SpecificationKatie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University, UK and Tilo Amhoff, University of Brighton, UK9. Working Globally: The Human Networks of Transnational Architectural ProjectsMabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, USA, Jordan Carver, University at Buffalo School of Architecture, USA and Kadambari Baxi, Barnard College, USAPart IV: The Construction of the Commons10. Labor, Architecture, and the New Feudalism: Urban Space as ExperienceNorman M. Klein, California Institute of the Arts, USA11. The Hunger Games: Architects in DangerAlicia Carrió, Carrió Studio, Spain12. Foucault's 'Environmental' Power: Architecture and Neoliberal SubjectivizationManuel Shvartzberg, University of Columbia, USAPart V: The Profession13. Three Strategies for New Value Propositions of Design PracticePhillip G. Bernstein, Yale University, USA and Autodesk, USA14. Labor and Talent in ArchitectureThomas Fisher, University of Minnesota, USA15. The (Ac)Credit(ation) CardNeil Leach, University of Southern California, USAAfterwordMichael Sorkin, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY, USAIndex

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?