Documentação e leitura do edifício e de sua produção

We present here the presuppositions of our research “The Work as Text”, with which we intend to formulate a methodological strategy to read buildings critically and extract from them the questions that have been on the architect’s desk during project development and on the building site during construction. We believe we should start from the building and not from the project, from the work and not from the theoretical discourse about it, for this is a territory where we can consider more clearly the nature of a project and the consistency of the ideas and operations behind the materiality of a building. Our proposal is to investigate buildings and constructions that come out as examples that highlight the relief of production relationships and operations, as open bodies and machines that display the everyday, commonplace, and necessary dialogue between the ideas on the building site and the work in the design, between the thinking and the making of architecture.