The Establishment

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

S.R. Hitchcock Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

S.E. Frausto Berlage - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
N.A. de Vries Public Building and Housing Design (graduation committee member)
M. Riedijk Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
B. Groothuijse Berlage - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

03-02-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The Establishment imagines a tailor shop that provides a range of certified made-to-measure suits, jackets, trousers, overcoats, shirts, and accessories - sited in Rotterdam’s new fashion district inside an old trade office and portside warehouse – accommodating a slower-paced fashion industry, in which use of the daily workers suit is restored.

Three buildings accommodate the re-popularized sartorial significance of the suit: A tailor shop, an employment agency, and a more discrete Longshoreman’s business club. Reigniting interest in the craft of tailoring, formal wear and long-lasting garments and reconvening the collective bargaining power of people in an ever more fragmented world of work.