Building (in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture

Thirty-four contributors including designers, engineers, fabricators, contractors, construction managers, planners, and scholars examine how contemporary practices of production are reshaping the design/construction process.
Through observations, arguments, and detailed project explorations contributors describe new models of practice and reorganizations of labor for the twenty-first century. Chapters include a reconsideration of craft in light of digital fabrication; an exploration of new methods of collaboration; an analysis of changes in contracts and standards; and an assessment of the new market realities of mass production and customization. Building (in) the Future includes contributions by architects James Carpenter, Mark Goulthorpe, Sheila Kennedy, Charlie Lazor, Joshua Price-Ramus, Robert A.M. Stern, and James Timberlake; BIM manager Rodd Merchant; curator Barry Bergdoll, engineer Klaus Bollinger; lawyers Howard W. Ashcraft, Jr. and Chris Noble; marketing manager Ewa Magnusson; and professors Branko Kolarevic, Reinhold Martin, and Moshen Mostafavi.

Phillip Bernstein is Vice-President at Autodesk, Inc., where he leads the Building Solutions Division, and a lecturer on professional practice at the Yale School of Architecture.

Peggy Deamer is a principal in the firm, Deamer Studio, and a professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

Extended essays by Kenneth Frampton, Paolo Tombesi, Howard W. Ashcraft, Jr., Reinhold Martin, and Barry Bergdoll

Brief essays by Kevin Rotheroe, James Carpenter, Branko Kolarevic, Rodd Merchant, John Taylor, Chris Noble, Phil Bernstein, and Kent Larson

Case Studies on recent architectural projects by Sheila Kennedy, Mark Goulthorpe, William Zahner, Klaus Bollinger, Scott Marble, Marc Simmons, Coren Sharples, John Nastasi, Hilary Sample, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Christiano Ceccato, Robert Kelle, Ewa Magnusson, Charlie Lazor, and James Timberlake

And a preface by Robert A.M. Stern, introductory remarks by Andrew Ross, and a postscript by Moshen Mostafavi