The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class and the Politics of Design by Peggy Deamer BOOK REVIEW
Michael Davis
tlooto Summary
The Architect as Worker explores the politics of design through immaterial labor and the creative class, challenging traditional notions of architecture as a profession.
Abstract
The latest published offering by Peggy Deamer, architect, Yale University professor, and occasional resident and teacher here in New Zealand is The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class and the Politics of Design. As editor, Deamer has gathered a range of authors, including architects, non-architects, professionals, and academics to reconsider the manner in which architecture is practiced from the position of the actual work involved.
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DAVIS, Michael. The architect as worker: Immaterial labor, the creative class and the politics of design by peggy deamer BOOK REVIEW. Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 2016.