Date of Award
Spring 6-4-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Department
Architecture
Abstract
Architects primarily work at a digital desktop, alienated from the spatial byproducts of their collaborative work. Therefore, software is the most influential mediator between these immaterial laborers and projects. Despite architectural production methods evolving, much of the same pernicious labor relations have subsisted. Building Information Modeling has become synonymous with architectural work, yet presents a missed opportunity in addressing and re-imagining labor conditions and power relations between workers.
Today, architects are proposing improved labor structures utilizing cooperatives and unions. Alongside these endeavors, might we reimagine our digital tools as allies? Delivered as a visual essay that is both critical and speculative, the project traces working methods through allegorical representations, ultimately imagining improved working futures.
Recommended Citation
Lovejoy, Tyler, "Immaterial realities" (2022). Masters Theses. 880.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/880
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Comments
View exhibition online: Tyler Lovejoy, Immaterial Realities