The fetishization of architecture within capitalist modernity has led to the invisibility
of the production processes of the construction industry and the socio-ecological
relations implicit in said processes, thus favoring the exploitation of the [ecological
and human] landscape outside of the public gaze. This is how Lefebvre said
the illusion of transparency is produced: believing that architectural objects clearly
reveal the social and ecological relationships necessary for their production.
Currently, the Socio-ecological cost of architecture and construction at a
planetary level is overwhelming: during the year 2020 the amount of materials
produced by man (anthropogenic mass), mainly cement, bricks, gravel, metals and
asphalt, exceeded the live mass in the planet (biomass), revealing the direct impact
that has architecture in climate change.
Documentation and visibility of architectural production processes is posed as a
critical vision that will allow to put in the public eye a counter-hegemonic visual
narrative that reconstructs the hidden complexity in architectural production. In this
way, DOMINIO intends to expand the coordinates of the visible (Didi-Huberman) to
reveal a geography of capital that makes evident the dialectical relationship
between architecture and TERRITORY.
