Author: Pedro Fiori Arantes File Type: pdf A critique of prominent architects approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades With the advent of revolutionary digital design and production technologies, contemporary architects and their clients developed a taste for dramatic, unconventional forms. Seeking to amaze their audiences and promote their global brands, starchitects like Herzog & de Meuron and Frank Gehry have reaped substantial rewards through the pursuit of spectacle enabled by these new technologies. This process reached a climax in projects like Gehrys Guggenheim Bilbao and the Bilbao effect, in which spectacular architectural designs became increasingly sought by municipal and institutional clients for their perceived capacity to enhance property values, which author Pedro Fiori Arantes calls the rent of form.Analyzing many major international architectural projects of the past twenty years, Arantes provides an in-depth account of how this architecture of exception has come to dominate todays industry. Articulating an original, compelling critique of the capital and labor practices that enable many contemporary projects, Arantes explains how circulation (via image culture), consumption (particularly through tourism), the division of labor, and the distribution of wealth came to fix a certain notion of starchitecture at the center of the industry.Significantly, Arantess viewpoint is not that of Euro-American capitalism. Writing from the Global South, this Brazilian theorist offers a fresh perspective that advances ideas less commonly circulated in dominant, English-language academic and popular discourse. Asking key questions about the prevailing logics of finance capital, and revealing inconvenient truths about the changing labor of design and the treatment of construction workers around the world, The Rent of Form delivers a much-needed reevaluation of the astonishing buildings that have increasingly come to define world cities.

Author: Judith van Erp File Type: pdf Thiswork offers a multidisciplinary approach to legal and policy instruments used to prevent andremedyglobal environmentalchallenges. It providesatheoretical overview of a variety of instruments, making distinctions between levels of governance (treaties, domestic law),types of instruments (market-based instruments, regulation, and liability rules), andbetween government regulation and private or self-regulation. The books central focus is an examination of theuse ofmixes between different types of regulatory and policy instruments and different levels of governance, notably in climate change, marine oil pollution, forestry, and fisheries. The authors examine how, in practice, mixes of instruments have often been developed. This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding how interactions between different instruments affect the protection of environmental resources.Book Description This volume addresses how combinations of public and private actors, and legislation and informal rules, can become smart mixes to regulate transboundary environmental harm. It will interest students and researchers of environmental law and regulation, as well as scholars of international law, instrument design, political science, and sociology. About the Author Judith van Erp is Professor of Public Institutions, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Designated Research Chair in Utrecht Universitys strategic interdisciplinary theme of Institutions for Open Societies.