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SUMMARY:RIOT Lecture Series: The Construction of Architecture. Clients\, C
 ontractors\, and Capital\, with Tiffanie Paré
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DESCRIPTION:Tiffanie Paré\nWho develops\, finances\, and commissions arch
 itecture—and in whose interest? This lecture series examines the often-i
 nvisible forces that shape architectural production—the clients who comm
 ission\, the contractors who build\, and the capital flows that determine 
 what gets realized. While architects are trained to focus on design\, the 
 political economy of construction is largely absent from architectural edu
 cation—sustaining a disciplinary insularity that obscures architecture's
  deep entanglement with capital\, labor\, and power. Yet building is funda
 mentally contingent: dependent on forces beyond the designer's reach\, sha
 ped by actors whose decisions constrain and enable architecture far more t
 han design intentions. The series invites scholars and practitioners whose
  research illuminates these dependencies: the bureaucratization of archite
 ctural practice through corporate management systems\, the client as a Mep
 histophelean figure key to the attainment of projects\, the contractor as 
 a decisive agent in determining how architecture is produced\, and the ent
 anglement of real estate development\, finance\, building\, and urban form
 . By exposing the structural conditions of construction's political econom
 y\, we seek not to lament architecture's lack of autonomy but to work prod
 uctively within its contingencies—essential groundwork for reimagining h
 ow practice might be organized otherwise.\n\nTiffanie Paré is an archite
 ct and researcher. She earned a B.Sc. in Architecture from McGill Universi
 ty (2019) and a Master’s degree in Architecture from EPFL (2022). Along
 side her academic research\, she has worked as an independent architect an
 d as a research assistant at EPFL’s Laboratory THEMA and the Archive
 s de la Construction Moderne (ACM). She has also served as a jury member 
 for architectural competitions\, including the SIA 142 competition for the
  expansion of CFPne and HEPIA in Geneva. She is currently leading her d
 octoral research project “Contractor as More-Than Builder” at EPFL\,
  funded by the Doc.ch SNSF\, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sarah Nic
 hols (EPFL) and Prof. Dr. Davide Spina (HKU). Her research examines the h
 istorical role of building contractors in shaping building culture in Swit
 zerland and beyond.
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