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INTRODUCTION: SETTING AN AGENDA 1. Introduction: Building a Field of Production Studies 2. Translation as Production 3. Challenging Design Ideology: Reframing Architectural Production and the Design-Labour Relation SECTION I: PATHS TO PRODUCTION STUDIES: FERRO AND HIS INTERLOCUTORS 4. The Building Site and the City: Radical Criticism and Emancipation in S©rgio Ferro and David Harvey 5. S©rgio Ferro, William Morris and a New Field: Architecture, cultural studies and production studies SECTION II: TOWARDS EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES 6. Unionization as a Political Issue: The Debate in the Architects' Union of S£o Paulo (1972-1981) 7. A Work Encampment Project (1981), by Rodrigo Brotero Lef¨vre 8. Masters of Detachment: Lingering on the Self-management Building Site 9. The International Workers of the World in the American Building Industry, 1905-1937 SECTION III: FROM THE BUILDING SITE 10. Absent voices, absent lives: articulating building workers in architectural production 11. Timber houses and favela carpenters in Brazilian Nordeste: An architectural history of production 12. The Construction of Alienated Labour and the Alienation of Construction Labour: Mexico, 16TH Century 13. Life-worlds / Death-worlds in the temple building industry of western India SECTION IV: LABOUR, MATERIAL, TECHNOLOGY 14. New Sites of Labour: Women and building products in the interwar period in the UK 15. A feminist reading of the construction site: learning with women builders in Mata dos Crioulos 16. The Material as a Source for the History of Architecture SECTION V: PRODUCTION AND PEDAGOGIES 17. Construction Technology for Building Autonomy 18. Weaving S©rgio Ferro's Web: Production Pedagogies in S£o Paulo (1963-1972) 19. The Useful Student: Perpetuating âSeparated Designâ in Handbooks for Architecture Students 20. From artist-architect to salaried architect: The examination of professional practice in West Berlin, 1967-1977 SECTION VI: POLITICS AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRODUCTION 21. Fire-Regimes of Grenfell: On construction and combustion 22. Remembering Production: Favela Museums, Building, and the Production of Space 23. Considering Artâs âBuilding Siteâ for Production Studies: The Case of Art Fabrication Afterword