Archinect - News 2024-11-21T13:22:58-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150067533/call-for-submissions-now-open-for-ed-3-normal Call for Submissions now open for 'Ed' #3: Normal! Nicholas Korody 2018-06-07T14:02:00-04:00 >2018-06-21T13:30:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7d/7d2509823391ddcd96ed663f04900498.gif" border="0" /><p>Architecture isn&rsquo;t normal. We take for a given that architecture has to operate the way it already does &mdash; but it doesn&rsquo;t. What appears as natural is in fact constructed, and has mutated dramatically through time. &ldquo;Architecture,&rdquo; that is, refers not just to the practice of building but also to a set of institutionalized social and labor relations, which are often misogynistic, racist, corrupt, and oppressive. For far too long, we&rsquo;ve accepted workplaces where women are mistreated, harassed, assaulted. We&rsquo;ve accepted the exclusion of people of color from our ranks and as our clients. We&rsquo;ve accepted exploitation of workers and cyclical systems of abuse. We&rsquo;ve accepted as the ideal of our profession an image of the architect&mdash;and the client&mdash;that is white, that is cis male, that is straight, that is able bodied, that is rich. We have to, urgently, denormalize these norms of the architectural profession and discipline.</p> <p>While architecture may not be normal, it does normalize. It transforms c...</p>