Book Talk: The Architect as Worker and The Politics of Parametricism

Please join us for a double book launch and discussion with the editors of two recent anthologies of urgent essays for contemporary architecture: Peggy Deamer (The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design) and Manuel Shvartzberg (The Politics of Parametricism: Digital Technologies in Architecture, co-edited with Matthew Poole), in conversation with architectural theorist and historian Reinhold Martin.

Speakers:

  • Peggy Deamer, Principal, Peggy Deamer; Assistant Dean, Yale University’s School of Architecture
  • Manuel Shvartzberg, Architect, Researcher, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, GSAPP; Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
  • Reinhold Martin, Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University; Director, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University

Organized by: AIANY Professional Practice and AIANY Technology Committees

Price: Free for members; $10 for non-members

Visit the Center for Architecture Event page for more details.

UPDATE 10/24/2016:  Great to be back at the Center for Architecture to discuss labor and architecture. Thanks to all who attended.  Here are some images of the event.

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