Building Sites addresses the urgent need to advance the critical understanding of relations between architectural design and the labour of building. Whilst recognising that in many parts of the world building takes place through self-organised processes and traditional skills, the book questions a central and problematic omission in architectural discourse, education and practice - the production of buildings, and the erasure of construction labour entailed by that omission. Through its engagement with the ground-breaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture ?seen from the building site?, the book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architecture and other disciplines.First the field requires careful research into the production of the built environment - at the construction site, in the factory, in the...
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