4008429: FU_Economy and Architecture

Beschreibung

• The profession of the architect, business models and forms of work in architecture and society
• Architecture as an object of business and/or speculation
• The value vs. price of architecture: tension field between professional, social and economic criteria
• Architecture in a degrowth society ("transformation design")

Lernergebnisse

Participants are able …

• to identify socioeconomic framework conditions and behavioral patterns
• to analyze reciprocal effects between actions and actors at the micro level (architects, businessmen etc.) and the economic macro level
• to understand theories on socioeconomic processes, apply them to architecture and critically reflect them
• to compile empirical data and findings on the professional field of architecture
• to reflect economic framework conditions and actions with regard to societal responsibilities

Lehrmethoden

• Elaboration of theoretical foundations in discussion groups, short lectures (if desired) or poster presentations. Optional: the presentation of empirical inquiry.

Voraussetzungen (inhaltlich)

• Interest to work through academic literature.

Literatur

Required reading:
Literature will be fine-tuned depending on the students' respective interests.
…Champy, Florent (2006): Professional Discourses under the Pressure of Economic Values. The Case of French Architects, Landscape Designers and Industrial Designers. In: Current Sociology (54), pp. 649-661.
…Ötsch, Silke, 'The Architect: a disappearing species in a financialised space?', in Economy and Architecture, ed. by Juliet Odgers, Mhairi McVicar and Stephen Kite (Routledge, 2015)

Recommended:
…Pongratz, Hans, A Society of Entrepreneurs: The expansion and profanation of 'creative destruction' in capitalist economies (2007), see Researchgate.
…Sklair, Leslie (2005): The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture in Globalizing Cities. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29 (3), S. 485-500.
…Smart, Alan; Lee, James (2003): Financialization and the Role of Real Estate in Hong Kong's Regime of Accumulation, Economic Geography, Volume 79, Issue 2, pages 153-171, April 2003
…Sommer, Bernd; Welzer, Harald (2014): Transformationsdesign. Wege in eine zukunftsfähige Moderne. München: Oekom-Verlag.
…Wilton-Ely, J. (2000): The Rise of the Professional Architect in England. In: Kostof, S. (Hg.): The architect: Chapters in the history of the profession, Berkeley: University of California Press, 180-207.

Arbeitsmaterial

…Aalbers, Manuel (2008): The Financialization of Home and the Mortgage Market Crisis. In: Competion & Change, Volume 12, Issue 2 (01 June 2008), pp. 148-166
…Blau, Judith R. Architects and firms: A sociological perspective on architectural practice. 3rd ed. Cambridge, Massachussetts: MIT Press, 1988.
…Collier, J. (2006): The Art of Moral Imagination: Ethics in the Practice of Architecture. Journal of Business Ethics, 66, 307-317.
…Coxe, Weld (1986): Charting Your Course. Master strategies for organizing and managing architecture firms. In: Architectural Technology (May/June), S. 52-58.
…Draper, J. (2000): The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Architectural Profession in the United States. In: Kostof, S. (Hg.): The architect: Chapters in the history of the profession, Berkeley: University of California Press, 209-237.
…Durkheim, Emile (1992 [1893]): Einige Bemerkungen über die Berufsgruppen. Vorwort zur zweiten Auflage von: Über soziale Arbeitsteilung. Studie über die Organisation höherer Gesellschaften. 2. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, S. 41-75.
…Frank, Robert H; Cook, Philip J (1996): The winner-take-all society. Why the few at the top get so much more than the rest of us. New York, NY: Penguin Books (Business).
…Gutman, Robert (1988): Architectural practice. A critical view. Princeton, N.J: Princeton Architectural Press.
…Kloosterman, Robert C. "Building a Career: Labour Practices and Cluster Reproduction in Dutch Architectural Design." Regional Studies 44, no. 7 (2010): 859-871.
…Krippner, Greta R. (2005): The financialization of the American economy. In: Socio-Economic Review (3), S. 173-208.
…Manske, Alexandra, and Christiane Schnell, 'Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung: Arbeit und Beschäftigung in der Kultur-und Kreativwirtschaft', in Handbuch Arbeitssoziologie, ed. by Fritz Böhle, Günter Voß and Günther Wachtler (Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2010), pp. 699-727
…Odgers, Juliet; McVicar, Mhairi; Kite, Stephen (Hg.) (2015): Economy and Architecture. Abingdon: Routledge.
…Peck, Jamie (2005): Struggling with the Creative Class. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29.4, S. 740-770.
…Montlibert, C. (1995): L'impossible autonomie de l'architecte: sociologie de la production architecturale. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg.
…Veblen, Thorstein (2007[1899]): Pecuniary Canons of Taste. In: Veblen, Thorstein: Theory of the leisure class, Chapter 6.
…more depending on the specific interest.

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