FROM THE CRITIQUE OF THE BUILDING SITE TO SELF MANAGEMENT:

SÉRGIO FERRO, USINA AND SELF MANAGED MUTIRÕES IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis19631

Abstract

The concepts of collective worker and critique of the building site developed by the Brazilian architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, are crucial to understand the practice of architectural collectives that started emerging in the 1990s with the purpose of providing technical guidance to right-to-land and right to housing grassroots movements in the region of São Paulo. One of such cases is Usina – Centro de Trabalhos para o Ambiente Habitado (Work Centre for the Inhabited Environment) (Usina CTA H), founded in 1990, gatherer of an extensive experience in technical consultancy to social movements organized as self-managed building teams, usually called mutirões. This paper aims to analyse Usina’s work and methodologies of design, decision and negotiation processes in the light of Sérgio Ferro’s concepts, in order to better understand the importance of his work in terms of redefining architectural practice as a political, social and economic agency.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2021-07-08

How to Cite

Amaral, B. (2021). FROM THE CRITIQUE OF THE BUILDING SITE TO SELF MANAGEMENT:: SÉRGIO FERRO, USINA AND SELF MANAGED MUTIRÕES IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL. Finisterra, 55(114), 141–155. https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis19631

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 114 (2020)

Section

Artigos

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Finisterra

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  1. Authors are responsible for the opinions expressed in the texts submitted to Finisterra.

  2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors must commit to complying with the “Guidelines for article submission”, on the RCAAP platform.

  4. Whenever a text may require amendments based on suggestions made by the Scientific Reviewers and/or the Executive Committee, authors must agree to accept these suggestions and implement the requested changes. If authors disagree with any of the amendments suggested, they will need to provide justifications for each individual case.

  5. Reproduction of materials liable to copyright laws has been granted permission in advance.

  6. Texts are original, unpublished and have not been submitted to other journals.

License URL CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (BY-NC-ND)