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A true south for design? The new international division of labour in architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2001

Paolo Tombesi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia; [email protected]
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Abstract

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This analysis shows how the increasing availability of computers in architectural practice and the steady development of electronic networks around the world could encourage the relocation of professional structures into countries with lower production costs. Starting from the existence of sharp professional wage differentials between developed and developing regions, it formulates the hypothesis that, in a few years, most architectural work could be documented in places such as South-East Asia and transferred digitally over to America, Australia or Europe.

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practice
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press