Mark Jarzombek · Bloomsbury Visual Arts · 2023
This book argues that the architecture/contractor divide is a "construction" with a particular history and theoretical problematic that impacts not just the history of the discipline, but also the history of labor that haunts the very understanding of contemporary architecture. The book looks at issues relating to preservation theory and the Library of Congress ordering systems, as well as to the tragic dualisms of "theory and practice," mind and body, design and craft, and architect and builder that belay any attempt to ever get out from under its particular falsifications.