104th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Shaping New Knowledges

General Contractors and Architects’ Distance from Labor

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): George Barnett Johnston

In pursuit of social position and influence, architects ceded ever more authority for thetechnical, managerial, and economic aspects of building to a new class of constructionintermediary, the general contractor. The ironic effect has been a gradual recessionof the very relevance that the profession so painstakingly sought.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6