What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new narratives, new organizations and new methods of production? How can we sit at the decision-making table to combat short-term real estate interests for longer-term social and ethical value? How can we pull architecture—its conceptualization, its pedagogy, and its enactment—into the 21st century without succumbing to its neoliberal paradigm? Members of UVW-SAW, the newly-formed grassroots trade union for architectural workers in the U.K., will chair a conversation with Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and author of Architecture and Labor (Routledge) to address these questions.
The talk formed part of the Architecture Foundation’s Book Week, which ran from November 23rd-27th 2020.
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