ABSTRACT
At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture’s relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecture that will be of interest to practitioners and industry professionals, as much as to academic researchers, teachers and students. How has modern architecture responded to mass production? How do we understand the necessarily social nature of production in the architectural office and on the building site? And how is architecture entwined within wider fields of production and reproduction—finance capital, the spaces of regulation, and management techniques? What are the particular effects of techniques and technologies (and above all their inter-relations) on those who labour in architecture, the buildings they produce, and the discursive frameworks we mobilise to understand them?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|25 pages
Architecture and the representation of industry
part II|46 pages
Architecture responds to industry
chapter 5|11 pages
The production of the Commons
chapter 6|12 pages
Modular men
part III|50 pages
The construction site
part IV|44 pages
The work of architects
chapter 14|12 pages
Form as/and utopia of collective labour
chapter 15|11 pages
Tools for conviviality
part V|29 pages
Economy
part VI|46 pages
Law and regulation
chapter 21|12 pages
The architectural discourse of building bureaucracy
chapter 22|10 pages
Regulatory spaces, physical and metaphorical
chapter 23|12 pages
Common projects and privatised potential
part VII|45 pages
Technologies and techniques
chapter 25|11 pages
An ‘architecture of bureaucracy'
part VIII|34 pages
Contemporary questions