Professionalism - Paperback

by Architekturfakult舩 Der Technischen Univ (Editor), Anne Femmer (Editor), Alex Lehnerer (Editor)

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 Alexander
Bartscher, Ivica Brnic, Peggy Deamer, Günther Domenig, Andri Gerber,
Julian Müller, Victoria Steiner, and others

Wer baut, sieht sich mit einem Dickicht von Positionen konfrontiert, die vor allem eins sind: Stimmen von Profis. Die Architektur nimmt dabei als Disziplin eine Sonderrolle ein, da sie seit jeher eine Profession bildet, die sich auf andere Professionen bezieht und diese in ihre Praxis des Planens und Bauens integriert. GAM.19 fragt nach den komplexen Konstellationen und unterschiedlichen Bedeutungsebenen von Professionalit舩 in der Architektur: Wie haben sich die professionellen Fundamente der Disziplin aufgrund onomischer, ologischer oder gesellschaftlicher Ver舅derungen im Wandel der Zeit verschoben und wie gehen Architekt*innen heute damit um? Was l舖st sich von den Mischformen lernen, bei denen professionelle Abl舫fe von unprofessionellen Verfahren hintergangen werden, um bisher unbekannte Resultate zu erzeugen? GAM.19 nimmt sich der Analyse und Neubewertung des Berufsbilds der Architektur an und l舖st unterschiedliche Akteur*innen zu Wort kommen, die den Begriff des Professionalismus im Kontext ihrer architektonischen Praxis reflektieren und seinen gegenw舐tigen Auspr臠ungen nachsp?en.

Mit Beitr臠en von Alexander Bartscher, Ivica Brnic, Peggy Deamer, G?ther Domenig, Andri Gerber, Julian M?ler, Victoria Steiner und anderen

Author Biography

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 Z?ich. 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 Z?ich 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.