A Revolutionary Suggestion

Introduction to Elia Zenghelis

Journal article (2015)

Authors

A. Djalali OLD Public Buiding
F. Marullo OLD Public Buiding
H. Khosravi Al-Hosseini OLD Public Buiding
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OLD Public Buiding
Education Architecture Labour Precarity Elia Zenghelis
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Published Date

2015-8

Language

English

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OLD Public Buiding

Abstract

Along with creativity, optimism and will, the early 1970’s London architecture scene was a moment of ideological conflict between political factions over which direction progress should be oriented. Instead of a victor being declared and a single vector followed, what resulted, at the Architectural Association at least, was an academic framework set up to preserve and even encourage such tendencies for conflict and divergence. Behemoth Press introduces here a text by Elia Zenghelis first published in 1975 that was originally written as a polemical response to a growing movement for unionization; a political form of labor that surely threatens the great productive potentials of competition and precarity.