CFP: Assembling Values: Architecture and Political Economy - 6-7 May 2016, Columbia University, USA

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a landscape marked by foreclosed homes, empty luxury towers, divided cities, and occupied streets has provoked debates concerning architecture’s relation to political economy. Are those buildings and sites of crisis and domination merely the backdrop to financial capitalism? If not, then this global, increasingly uneven, landscape compels us to recognize the instrumentalities and values that sustain and even augment economic power relations, through architecture’s own workings and operations.