Simón Vélez is perhaps one of the last remaining practitioners of the process where the human hand is the origin of an entire architecture.

The architectural monograph covers the journey of a drawing conceived by hand and its realisation into building. The book depicts how trained, skilled workers translate Vélez's drawings into one-off buildings in contexts where technology has yet to filter in. It shows the polarity of the process of making handmade buildings and the dialogue on site between the master architect and his team, away from western ideas of hierarchical, package-based, office-produced architecture.
 

The author, Ajay Khanna sees Simón Vélez as a 'star-architect' operating from a context whose epicentre is not based in Europe, the United States, or Japan but in a developing country and whose body of work is deserving of the highest honour in architecture, the Pritzker prize.