Main entry:

Hamm, Ashton, author.

Title & Author:

Practice practice / Ashton Hamm ; edited by Peggy Deamer and Dariel Cobb.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Novato, CA : ORO Editions, [2023]
©2023

Description:

84 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 71-84)
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A brief history of Co-Ops -- A brief synopsis of architecture -- Where and how the intersections became possible -- Part II. Cooperative legal entity types and tax code -- Part III. Interview with South Mountain Company -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Appendix: Glossary -- List of resources for Cooperatives -- Endnotes.

Summary:

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 organisational 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 professionalisation of architecture. This contextual background highlights the coincident struggles of the labour 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 - including diagrams, sample operating agreements, and bylaws - 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. Finally, Practice Practice presents a vision for a cooperative network of small architecture firms as imagined in collaboration with the Architecture Lobby.

ISBN:

9781951541958 paperback
1951541952 paperback

Subject:

Architectural firms United States.
Architectural practice United States.
Cooperation United States.
Agences d'architecture États-Unis.
Architectural firms
Architectural practice
Cooperation
United States

Added entries:

Deamer, Peggy, editor.
Cobb, Dariel, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319376
Call No.: 319376
Copy: 1
Status: External loan