# Design and the Building Site and Complementary Essays

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## Summary

Sérgio Ferro's 'Design and the Building Site and Complementary Essays', a theoretical architecture book featuring a silkscreened hardcover with a brown-toned graphic cover.

## Description

Dating from the early 1970s, ‘Design and the Building Site’ is Sérgio Ferro’s most influential theoretical work. Written just after Ferro had arrived in France after fleeing the military dictatorship that took power in Brazil in 1964 and arrested him in 1970 for his involvement in active resistance, the essay reflects much of what he had left behind: encounters with Brasilia’s harsh construction sites; experiences with the collective Arquitetura Nova; work on the editorial committee of the journal Teoria e Prática; and the year Ferro spent in prison, befriending construction workers and reading Freud. The text constitutes a critique of architectural production under capitalism, surveying the political economy of architectural production and its influence on the contemporary practice of architecture. Half a century after its first publication, and in the face of capitalism’s greatest crisis, it has never offered such a pressingly relevant call for action.  This edition contextualises and expands on Ferro’s essay with earlier and later texts, clarifying both the contextual and theoretical elements at play in its argument. A preface written by Ferro especially for this first English-language edition recounts his journey from Brasilia’s building sites to the experiments of Arquitetura Nova, as well as a topic he has rarely touched on before: postmodernism. ‘Production of Houses in Brazil’, from 1969, analyses the Brazilian dwellings from popular self-builds to the luxury and mass markets, offering both a historical report and a blueprint for deciphering the social relations of architectural production in other contexts. Finally, ‘Against the Grain’, a recent and previously unpublished essay, interprets architectural modernism as a Hegelian ‘determinate negation’ of nineteenth-century eclecticism.   Together, these texts constitute a deeper exploration of the theory introduced in Architecture from Below: An Anthology, and offer a broad range of challenging and vital ideas to builders, thinkers, and architects today.

## Appearance

- **Fit:** Hardcover

## Variants

- **In stock:** 2 of 2

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Architecture Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-915743-49-7
- **tags:** Sérgio Ferro, transfer
- **pages:** 280 pages
- **author:** Sérgio Ferro
- **format:** Silkscreened hardcover
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Silkscreened hardcover
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 16.5 x 22.5 cm
- **page count:** 280 pages
- **product type:** Architecture Books
- **listed prices:** €30 £25 US$35 AU$60
- **shopify handle:** design-and-the-building-site-and-complementary-essays-sergio-ferro
- **publication date:** April 2025
- **dimensions and pages:** 16.5 x 22.5 cm, 280 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** architecture book
- **Type Synonyms:** hardcover book, theoretical text
- **Tags:** silkscreened cover, hardcover, text-heavy cover, monochrome imagery
- **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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