On Architecture and Work (eBook)

The Political Economy of Space Vol. 3

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Herausgeber)

Marisa Cortright and (non-)Swiss Architects, Namita Vijay Dharia, construction workers' voices (collected by Lalie Porteret and Carolina Pichler), USINA-CTAH with Pedro Fiori Arantes (Text von)

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2025
120 Seiten
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
978-3-7757-6066-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Why is architecture so remote from labor struggles, with poorly negotiated labor contracts and barely any self-management models? What possibilities emerge when we acknowledge the glaring class divide between the architectural firm and the construction site? What insights do the stories of workers provide about the construction industry? How do different design practices emerge if designers and construction workers unite? 
On Architecture and Work is a collection of essays on the relationship between construction, architecture, work, and labor. From complaints over grueling working conditions on construction sites to demands for better benefits in design offices, asking candidly "who can afford to be radical?", this is the third publication in the series The Political Economy of Space, after On Architecture and the Greenfield (2024) and On Architecture and Greenwashing (2024).
Edited by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, head of the RIOT laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology—EPFL in Lausanne, this volume updates the discussion on architecture and work by giving answers from construction workers, scholars, and design practitioners.

Inhalt

Cover
Halftitle
Titlepage
Table of Contents
The Labor of Building - Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
For Solidaristic Practices in Architectural Work - Marisa Cortright
An Architecture of Collectivity - Namita Vijay Dharia
The Union, the Insurance, and the Workers: Voices from the Construction Site - Carolina Pichler and Lalie Porteret
Architecture, Politics, and Self-management: Mutirão as a Transformative Practice - Usina-CTAH with Pedro Fiori Arantes
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Impact Evaluation
Colophon

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2025
• Mitarbeit: Designer: Fernanda Tellez Velasco
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Arbeit • Arbeitsethos • Architectur • Architekt • Architektur • Architekturdiskurs • Architekturtheorie • Architekturwissenschaft • Bau • Bauen • Capitalism • Design • Kapitalismus • Kapitalismuskritik • Labor • Ökonomie • Politics • Politik • Schweiz • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology • System • Systemkritik • Umwelt • Wirtschaft • Zürich
• ISBN-10: 3-7757-6066-0 / 3775760660
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-6066-9 / 9783775760669