ARCHITECTURE FROM BELOW

ARCHITECTURE FROM BELOWFrom the press: For the French Brazilian architect, theorist, and painter Srgio 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

of departure and return

Punctuation evokes flickering light

Drawing from philosophy of language

the forces of bewilderment that it unleashes

as attractive and sensuous as the book’s own design

Structured as a collaborative exploration

” Hobbes wrote

Where a beloved dog bespeaks its mistress

Fiction / Concrete Poetry

and Nakayasu’s own experimental translation practices

" "I Hear America Singing

and what could he do