# Construction of Classical Design

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $35.00
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## Summary

Hardcover architecture book titled 'Construction of Classical Design' by Sérgio Ferro, featuring a green silkscreened cover with a classical figure illustration.

## Description

Construction of Classical Design is a detailed historical analysis of the genesis of architectural drawing and design since the late Gothic period in Europe. In his exacting and irreverent style, Sérgio Ferro reveals how these tools were slowly separated from their origin – instruments in a material process – and turned into a formal language, legitimised through reference to antiquity and alien to the logic of construction and its workers. This transformation is shown to be part of the social, economic, political, and intellectual transition from the Middle Ages to the capitalist era. In tandem, Ferro deciphers the evolution of the professional and disciplinary field of architecture, with its struggles for recognition and its self-deceptions.  Following Architecture from Below and Design and the Building Site, this third volume of Ferro’s writings presents some of his most recent research, offering a radical reinterpretation of the received history of European architecture, and with it architecture tout court. It offers a deeply material analysis of a subject often either bypassed or overindulged, proposing lucid explanations and inspiring new ways of working.  Edited by Silke Kapp and Mariana Moura Translated by Ellen Heyward and Ana Naomi de Sousa

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Architecture Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-915743-50-3
- **tags:** architecture history, architecture theory, art history, Mariana Moura, Silke Kapp, Sérgio Ferro
- **pages:** 432 pages
- **author:** Sérgio Ferro
- **format:** Silkscreened hardcover
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Silkscreened hardcover
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 16.5 x 22.5 cm
- **page count:** 432 pages
- **product type:** Architecture Books
- **listed prices:** €30 £25 US$35 AU$65
- **shopify handle:** construction-of-classical-design-sergio-ferro
- **publication date:** August 2026
- **dimensions and pages:** 16.5 x 22.5 cm, 432 pages

## Enrichment

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

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