The Worst Architect
C. G. BeckCritical thoughts on design, labor, and society
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Designers Need New Theories
Gari Melchers, Woman Reading By A Window, 1895
As the semester winds down, this week I wanted to write a reflection on one of the central readings from my labor course: Making Space by Matrix. Although it’s about architecture, the critique...
What Makes Work Meaningful?
Édouard Joseph Dantan - Serre en construction (1890)
In a piece I wrote last month for ’s substack, I got a lot of great feedback about the relationship between creativity and labor. My overall argument was that while it’s common to name c...
You Don’t Need a Bad Boss to Start a Union
Photo by Egor Komarov on Unsplash
This week a few of us from Architectural Workers United spoke at the AIA Center for Architecture’s emerging architects committee. The topic of conversation was on “unions in architecture,” a timely as cele...
The Normal Buildings Are Back
A new building on 14th & 6th Ave in Manhattan
As I’ve walked around New York City lately, I’ve noticed something. Or rather, I haven’t noticed as much, at least when it comes to buildings.
Fewer are the objects that try their hardest to s...
Design Workers of the World, Unite… with Owners?
El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1924
For my guest post last week with Grace Blakeley’s substack, “The Myth of the Creative Class,” I wrote about the ways certain identities prevent others from forming that might help join us together. In th...
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