# Architecture from Below: An Anthology

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $20.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
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## Summary

Architecture from Below: An Anthology by Sérgio Ferro, featuring a silkscreened hardcover with a maroon-toned cover image.

## Description

For the French-Brazilian architect, theorist, and painter Sérgio Ferro, looking at architecture from below means putting the building site and building workers at the centre of architectural enquiry. Instead of new trends or big names, Ferro strives for an approach ‘that enables one to see both head and feet at the same time – the magnanimous ideal and the muck down below’. The process of building rarely features in architectural history and theory. Ferro argues that this persistent dismissal and neglect of building labour is no mere oversight, but instead a structural necessity of capitalist development which serves to deny labour as the source of value, to make capital’s command appear mandatory, and to maintain the profession’s capacity to act ‘on’ and ‘over’ the building site. Written between 1967 and 2019, these ten essays introduce Sérgio Ferro’s vital thinking by confronting architecture with critical theories ranging from Marx to contemporary authors. They draw on concrete cases in different historical and geographical contexts – from Strasbourg to Brasilia, via Dubai – to disclose how capitalist relations of production have transformed architecture and its relations to artistic practices such as painting and sculpture. This first collection of essays by Ferro to be published in English is edited by Silke Kapp and Mariana Moura and translated by Ellen Heyward and Ana Naomi de Sousa. It is the first of a series of three books by Ferro to be published by MACK which have been translated into English through the TF/TK project led by Katie Lloyd Thomas and João Marcos Lopes.

## Appearance

- **Fit:** Hardback

## Variants

- **In stock:** 2 of 2

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Architecture Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-915743-37-4
- **tags:** Sérgio Ferro, transfer
- **pages:** 320 pages
- **author:** Sérgio Ferro
- **format:** Silkscreened hardcover
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Silkscreened hardcover
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 16.5 x 22.5cm
- **page count:** 320 pages
- **product type:** Architecture Books
- **listed prices:** €30 £25 US$35 AU$69
- **shopify handle:** architecture-from-below-an-anthology-br-sergio-ferro
- **publication date:** April 2024
- **dimensions and pages:** 16.5 x 22.5cm, 320 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** book
- **Type Synonyms:** hardcover book, anthology
- **Tags:** silkscreened cover, hardback, text-heavy cover, illustrated cover
- **Styles:** academic, minimalist
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Hardcover
- **Genre:** Arts, Design
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

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