Concrete Labor

This paper examines concrete construction, using the Lafayette 148 New York ShantouBuilding in China as a foil to discuss construction logic driven by labor. The paperseeks to identify different considerations of labor historically in concrete architectureand contemporaneously in practice. As such, the processes of building, in context toglobal architectural practice, is examined to ask where can design influence labor?What kind of labor is it? And who’s labor are we referring to?

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6