E-raamat: Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire

"Many books pose the question: What can architecture do thats good? Not enough ask what architecture can do for evil. Historian Aaron Cayers book Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire does exactly that." * The Architect's Newspaper * Cayer makes clear that corporate professionalization teaches students to be efficient tools of capital, reproducing the world in return for greater profits rather than transforming it at its foundations. With higher educations recent embrace of artificial intelligence (AI), Cayers call to action is especially importantarchitects and pedagogues must seek inspiration in alternative embodied and collectivist forms of production. * Society for US Intellectual History * "In Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire, author Aaron Cayer, an assistant professor of architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, traces the history of AECOM as a case study not only for the changing role of architecture in the 20th century but also its entanglement with postwar geopolitics, neoliberal policy, and the rise of the U.S. as the global hegemon." * Architectural Record *