Phillip Bernstein

A good companion to Gutman's collection of essays above is this one and its wide-ranging contributions on the profession today. Most of the essays (including ones by Kenneth Frampton, Scott Marble of Marble Fairbanks, Coren Sharples of SHoP Architects, James Carpenter, and other educators/practitioners) focus on the role of technology in shaping how architects work. The two main sections look at "working and making" -- how architects draw, basically -- and "collaboration," the ways in which those drawings are shared with collaborators. In this last regard legal concerns enter the picture, a major hurdle in "recasting labor in architecture."… (plus d'informations)