Violation City
Ann Lui & Craig Reschke
Caroline Acheatel, Paul J. Lorenz, Paul Rasmussen and Alexander Stagge, eds., Perspecta 54 “Onus”
MIT Press, 2020
Caroline Acheatel, Paul J. Lorenz, Paul Rasmussen and Alexander Stagge, eds., Perspecta 54 “Onus”
MIT Press, 2020
“What is the role of architects in this ongoing push-and-pull between regulation and compliance—an endless war against crumbling parapets and missing smoke detectors—with the city’s residents caught in the middle? Building violations work is unglamorous for architects: ungainly in execution, requiring bureaucratic paperwork, rarely producing magazine-worthy photography and poorly paid. However, the fifth most issued building violation since 2006, with over 16,211 occurrences, is the require-ment to “Submit plans prepared, signed, and sealed by a licensed architect or registered structural engineer for approval and obtain permit. (13-32-010, 13-32-040, 13-40-010, 13-40-020).”
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