ARCH+
Journal for Architecture and Urbanism
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ARCH+ Publishers
Nikolaus Kuhnert, Anh-Linh Ngo
Advisory Board
Arno Brandlhuber, Beatriz Colomina, Philipp Oswalt, Stephan Trüby, Georg Vrachliotis, Mark Wigley, Karin Wilhelm
Editor-in-Chief
Anh-Linh Ngo* (V. i. S. d. P.)
Managing Director
Arno Löbbecke
Editorial Team
Nora Dünser*, Mirko Gatti, Christian Hiller, Felix Hofmann*, Sascha Kellermann* (co-project lead for the German-language publication), Markus Krieger, Daniel Kuhnert, Victor Lortie* (project lead for the English-language publication), Melissa Makele, Alex Nehmer, Jakob Walter* (co-project lead for the German-language publication)
Guest Editors
s+ station+ station.plus
Chair for Architecture and Storytelling
Institute of Design and Architecture (IEA),
Department of Architecture (D-ARCH),
ETH Zurich
www.station.plus
Prof. Arno Brandlhuber*; Giacomo Ardesio, Severin Bärenbold, Brigitte Beck, Ludwig Engel*, Olaf Grawert* (project lead), Pan Hu, Alina Kolar, Meghan Rolvien
Managing Editor
Nora Dünser*
Editorial Assistant
David Siegrist*
* Editorial team for this publication, which is based on the German-language issue ARCH+ 251: Unternehmen Architektur (March 2023)
The English version of this publication has been made possible by the generously support of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2024: Nature of Hope, held from June 29 to October 13, 2024, at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
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Stan Hema, Berlin
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Project Management for Stan Hema
Niki Moreira
English Copyediting
Victor Lortie
Translations
Alisa Kotmair (pp. 1–2, 26–29, 58–65)
Victor Lortie (pp. 3, 52–57)
Rob Madole (pp. 4–5, 42–47, 78–83, 144–54)
Jeremy Gaines (pp. 84–87, 100–05, 156–61)
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James Copeland
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Christian Hiller
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Paul Barth, Manuel Bokanyi, Leonie Wagner, and Sarah Wirth for their in-depth analysis of the statistics on the architecture market. Like their contributions, many of the conclusions and reflections in this publication arose from discussions with students as part of the s+ teaching program (station.plus, IEA, D-ARCH, ETH Zurich).
We would also like to thank Naima Callenberg, Saskia Hebert, Stefan Heidenreich, Gábor Kocsis, Lucia Martínez, Silke Ötsch, Ruth Schagemann, Anna Yeboah, and Nina Zschocke in particular for their productive comments, suggestions, and additions to the content of this issue.
We would especially like to thank all the groups and individuals who have made every effort across various media to raise awareness around the topic of working conditions in architecture to improve them. These include Architects for Future, Failed Architecture, Future Architects Front, Kontextur, The Architecture Lobby, UVW-SAW, and many more.
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ISSN 0587-3452 (ARCH+)
ISBN 978-3-931435-87-5 (ARCH+)
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First edition: 2024
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