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  title info:
    title: Architecture as a global system
    sub title: scavengers, tribes, warlords and megafirms
  name:
    name part: Raisbeck, Peter
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 143 pages)
  abstract: Since the 1980s the architectural profession across the world has been driven by globalisation. The factors shaping this globalisation include neo-liberal economics, digital transformation and the rise of social media against the background of the profession's entrenched labour practices. In describing architecture as a global system, this book outlines how globalisation has shaped architecture and explores the degree to which architecture remains a distinct field of knowledge. The book identifies four categories of architects in this global system: scavengers, tribes, warlords and megafirms. By employing this institutional-logics approach, the author looks beyond the surface spectacle of iconic projects, celebrity architects and cycles of urban focused media outrage. From this perspective, the book illuminates the archipelagos and outposts of disciplinary knowledge that architectural actors traverse and highlights the frontiers at which architectural knowledge is both created and eroded. The author argues that to retain their future agency, architects must understand the contours and ecologies of practice that constitute this global system of architectural production. This book provides a clear-sighted analysis to suggest the points that need reconfiguring in this global system so that architects may yet shape and order the future of cities.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Architecture as a global system: an introduction -- Chapter 2. Scavengers -- Chapter 3. Tribes -- Chapter 4. Warlords -- Chapter 5. Megafirms -- Chapter 6. The Global system in crisis.
  note: Peter Raisbeck (University of Melbourne, Australia).
  note: Includes index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and globalization
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Theory of architecture
  classification: NA2543.G46 R35 2020
  classification: 720.103
  classification: 720.1
  identifier: 9781838676575
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1108/9781838676551
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    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 191219
    record change date: 20191219103429.0
    record identifier: 9781838676575
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng