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Practice Practice

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The business of architecture—shaped by anti-trust legislation and pro-corporate governmental policies—has created an extractive, inequitable, and precarious environment for its practitioners…
 
ISBN: 978-1-951541-95-8
Size: 6” x 9” Portrait
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 120pp
Publication Date: Fall 2023
World Rights: Available
 
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“Appeals to the dissatisfied or unengaged practitioner as a model beyond the status quo”

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Weight 1 lbs
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The business of architecture—shaped by anti-trust legislation and pro-corporate governmental policies—has created an extractive, inequitable, and precarious environment for its practitioners. These pressures have led many small firms, which make up roughly three quarters of architecture offices in the United States, to adopt diverse, ad-hoc organizational and survival strategies. In their very precarity, these small firms offer fertile grounds to test more resilient structures. One such model, the worker cooperative, offers a critical mode of practice that is equitable, democratic, and addresses the systemic inequalities that plague the profession.

‘Practice Practice’ addresses the parallel trajectories of cooperatives in the United States and the professionalization of architecture. This contextual background highlights the coincident struggles of the labor movement and the emergence of the architectural corporation. Within this context, the cooperative model is presented as a challenge to the prevailing conditions of the profession. Logistical frameworks for creating an architectural cooperative are offered for any firm looking to transition or incorporate anew. The book projects the social, economic, and aesthetic benefits of the architectural cooperative by taking stock of cooperatives in other industries.

Authors

Ashton Hamm is a licensed architect and a worker-owner at uxo architects—California’s first architectural cooperative founded in 2016. Ashton is an activist and an advocate for the cooperative movement, recently completing a fellowship with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. with uxo architects, Ashton works on projects that range from single family remodels to renovations of community-based organizations to affordable multifamily housing for tribal led community land trusts. Ashton received her B. Arch from Virginia Tech.

Additional Info

ISBN: 978-1-951541-95-8
Size: 6” x 9” Portrait
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 120pp
Publication Date: Fall 2023
World Rights: Available

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Practice Practice

“Appeals to the dissatisfied or unengaged practitioner as a model beyond the status quo”

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