Death to the Calling: a Job in Architecture is Still a Job

Death to the Calling: a Job in Architecture is Still a Job

The myth of the calling obscures the role of architectural support staff and encourages architects to surrender their workers’ rights. It stands in the way of solidarity between all architectural workers.

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Death to the Calling: a Job in Architecture is Still a Job

Death to the Calling: a Job in Architecture is Still a Job

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The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs

The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs

Why Haven’t British Architects Unionised?

Why Haven’t British Architects Unionised?

#10 Mecca to the Max: The Holy City Transformed

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#10 Mecca to the Max: The Holy City Transformed

Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge

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Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge

Craigslust: “We’ll Have Sex and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat”

Craigslust: “We’ll Have Sex and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat”

A pastoral fiction that speaks more to a mutated village life than what is arguably the height of techno-capitalism today

Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable

Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable

The politics of the industry remain a mystery to most on-lookers

#09 Listen to the City, It’s Trying to Tell You Something

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#09 Listen to the City, It’s Trying to Tell You Something

From Mies to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model

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From Mies to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model

Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need

Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need

The Real Estate Sector is Using Algorithms to Work Out the Best Places to Gentrify

The Real Estate Sector is Using Algorithms to Work Out the Best Places to Gentrify

Learning from Brazil’s “Architect of the Poor”

Learning from Brazil’s “Architect of the Poor”

Six months ago the first ever AI-driven residential property acquisition took place

Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities

Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities

Taking Back Taksim: Everyday Life vs. Top-Down Redevelopment

Taking Back Taksim: Everyday Life vs. Top-Down Redevelopment

Dear Jean Nouvel, Please Don’t “Revitalise” the Algiers Casbah

Dear Jean Nouvel, Please Don’t “Revitalise” the Algiers Casbah

#08 Speer in Qatar or: How Architects Stopped Caring and Learned to Love the Client

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#08 Speer in Qatar or: How Architects Stopped Caring and Learned to Love the Client
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