Built Orders of Finance, Risk, and Racial Capitalism

Caley Horan, Peter James Hudson, Maren Koehler, Jasper Ludewig*, Amy Thomas, Alexia Yates

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Abstract

This issue of ATR considers numerous instances in which economic historians and historians of capitalism have turned to architecture as evidence of the workings of economic and financial systems. This collective position paper stems from the attempt to engage more directly with these disciplines; an attempt that was first manifested in the symposium “Built Orders of Finance, Risk and Racial Capitalism,” held online in early 2022. How are built orders shaped by processes of financialization, actuarial calculations of risk and the conditions of racial capitalism? How do built orders mobilize specific economic regimes? What kinds of evidence can be enlisted to discern the constitutive relationships established and maintained between architecture and regimes of finance? What scales are implied in these relationships? What is involved in their historicization? This article invites future conversations between the fields of scholarship it canvases to more comprehensively apprehend the terms, conditions, and histories of financialized space.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)213-234
Number of pages22
JournalArchitectural Theory Review
Volume26
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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Keywords

  • Architectural history
  • economic history
  • finance
  • history of capitalism
  • history of risk

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