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‘Remember I’m the bloody architect!’: Architects, organizations and discourses of profession
journal contribution
posted on 2009-04-07, 12:55 authored by Laurie Cohen, Adrian Wilkinson, John ArnoldJohn Arnold, Rachael FinnThere is a growing consensus that professional work faces an uncertain future.
However, debates have tended to take a macro focus, underplaying the role of
individuals’ accounts of their working lives. In this article we focus on UK architecture,
examining how public-sector and private-sector architects construct the purpose
and process of their occupation, applying the concept of discourse to
explore and explicate the different versions expressed in individuals’ accounts.We
argue that architecture is constituted in the modes of creative endeavour, business
activity and public service.The discourses that are mobilized, and the occasions of
their production, reflect architects’ orientations to the diverse challenges facing
their profession, particularly concerning the role of creativity in the purpose and
practice of architecture.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Citation
COHEN, L. ... et al., 2005. ‘Remember I’m the bloody architect!’: Architects, organizations and discourses of profession. Work, Employment & Society, 19 (4), pp. 775 - 796Publisher
© SageVersion
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Publication date
2005Notes
This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Work, Employment & Society [© Sage]. The definitive version is available at: http://wes.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/4/775ISSN
0950-0170Language
- en