ABSTRACT
Building manufacture tends to remain a manufacture, with marginal improvements, such as those made possible by information technology. The features of this method of production inexorably determine the professional practice of architects and other agents in charge of the prescriptions, particularly those related to design. Since the beginning of the history of the post-medieval architecture, building sites have been favoured grounds for bouts of insubordination by workmen from the monopolisable crafts. Design combines operational prescription, which people will suppose technically justified, and elements of the technique of domination. The true artistic dimension of architectural form should be the exteriorisation of its foundations; it should be the expression of the intrinsic logic of the process of non-subordinated manufacture. The architectural design has been part of the foundations of commodity production ever since it betrayed its origins by separating from the building site.
