Professionalism

Ahead of Publication Published by JOVIS Verlag GmbH 2023

Professionalism

Edited by: Architekturfakultät der Technischen Universität Graz
Compiled by: Anne Femmer , Alex Lehnerer and Florian Summa

In the series GAM - Graz Architecture Magazine

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About this book

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch)

Whoever builds is inevitably confronted with a jungle of different positions, all with one thing in common: they are all the views of professionals. As a discipline, architecture occupies a special role. It is a profession itself, and one which relates to numerous other professions and integrates them into its practice of planning and building. GAM 19 interrogates the complex constellations and various semantic meanings of professionalism in architecture. How have the professional foundations of the discipline shifted over time due to economic, ecological, or societal changes, and how do today’s architects engage with them? What is there to be learned from all the hybrid forms in which professional procedures are circumvented by unprofessional processes in order to produce hitherto unknown results? GAM 19 takes on the task of analyzing and re-evaluating architecture’s occupational profile, providing a platform for a diverse range of players to reflect on the concept of professionalism in the context of their architectural practice and to identify its contemporary manifestations.

With contributions by Grayson Bailey, Alexander Bartscher, Klara Bindl, Ivica Brnić, Peggy Deamer, Anne Femmer, Andri Gerber, Andreas Lechner, Alex Lehnerer, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Jan Meier, Julian Müller, Victoria Steiner, Florian Summa, Juergen Teller, and Lena Unger

Author information

Anne Femmer was Professor of Integral Architecture at the TU Graz Institute of Design and Building Typology from 2020 to 2022. She studied architecture at ETH Zurich and worked for a number of architecture offices in Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland after graduating. From 2015 to 2018, she was an assistant to professors Christian Kerez and Jan de Vylder at ETH Zurich. She founded her own firm in 2015, and became a visiting lecturer at TU Munich in 2020.

Alex Lehnerer is an architect and university lecturer. He studied architecture at both TU Berlin and UCLA, and completed his PhD at ETH Zürich. Since 2020, he has led the Institute of Spatial Design TU Graz. Prior to obtaining a professorship there, he was an assistant professor at ETH Zürich and at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture. In 2014, he acted as General Commissioner of the German pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. He founded his own architecture firm, with offices in Zurich and Erlangen, in 2012.

Florian Summa studied architecture at RWTH Aachen and was Professor of Integral Architecture at the TU Graz Institute of Design and Building Typology from 2020 to 2022. From 2011 to 2015, he worked for Caruso St John Architects in London and Zurich. In 2015, he founded his architecture firm SUMMACUMFEMMER in Leipzig with Anne Femmer. He was an assistant to Professor Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich from 2015 to 2018, and was a visiting lecturer at TU Munich in 2020.

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(Deutsch)

Languages: German, English
Publisher: JOVIS Verlag GmbH
Pages
- Main content: 268
Illustrations
- Other: zahlr. farb. und s/w Abb.
Keywords: Professionalism; practice of planning and building; architecture; economic changes; ecological changes; societal changes; architectural practice; planning and construction process

eBook

Planned Publication: June 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783986120078

Paperback

Published: June 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783986120061