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Architecture as a commodity. Architecture is commodified in its built form when it is purchased, sold, and discussed in terms of square feet or the number of rooms. When buildings are traded as commodities for profit, investors and developers begin to play the market in pursuit of profit.
Apr 24, 2015 · It is telling that the most noteworthy architectural manifesto of 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the onset of an uncontested global rule of capitalism, is A Vision of Britain by Prince Charles. The modern age prefigured in ‘The Futurist Manifesto’, at the tail end of the Ottocento with its hereditary hegemonies ...
Aug 25, 2017 · Through a general discussion of architecture under neoliberal capitalism and a case study of the New York City High Line and surrounding high design new construction, this essay explores ways in which architecture has transformed to serve speculative capitalists, and investigates models for reclaiming architecture as a discipline in the service ...
Functionally differentiated society tends to imply the market liberalisation of the economy (capitalism), the democratization of politics (beyond ‘natural’ monarchic rulers), the abandonment of natural law for positivism in the legal system, and in architecture we witness the abandonment of mimesis and fixed (natural) types in favour of understa...
Mar 18, 2016 · Architecture is a great case study in the harmful character of this work ethic, i.e. normative expectations of unpaid labour, sleepless work culture, and grueling academic standards. But architects also take pride in these conditions. How are ideals around a work ethic produced? Why should – and how could – this be dismantled?
Architecture conjugates all sorts of things (“flows”, in the terminology used here) to create a surplus value beyond (or before) the capitalist surplus value that is only one negative instance of a broader positive phenomenon.
We seek papers that move beyond the totalizing narratives of architecture as a process and product of contemporary capitalism to theorizing the complexity of architectural method, rethinking the globalization of architectural production and design, and documenting the emergence of alternative models for architectural practice, and their relation...
