Making architecture compete: open-ended accumulation meets objectification and singularisation in the UK construction industry

Journal of Cultural Economy

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 476-487

  Gottschling, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

architecture; Competition; construction; objectification; singularisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979210785     PISSN: 17530350     EISSN: 17530369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1204346     Document Type: Article

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