“Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus”.1 A tour of the Canal de Castilla puts background to these reflections on time. A time of slow discourse between the sound of water. The Canal de Castilla is the great effort of Spanish hydraulic engineering at the end of the 18th century. The late son of the Enlightenment and early victim of the […]
Both Aalto‘s ceramic pieces enter the study of my father in 1974 after his viaje1 to Finland. He had thirty eight years, I had nine, and it would be late some others in knowing of his creator, but since then the Finn occupies a place emphasized in my architectural being. The pieces are of perfect invoice, carefully proportionate, smooth and […]
The response is clear: we contribute the signature that supports our professional capacity. But before let’s define a couple of terms, architect and architecture. First we, architect, of the Latin architectus, that derives in turn from the Greek architekton, composed for archi, principally or chief and tekton, works. The architect is so the chief or master builder. According to the […]
Out of sight, out of mind… I do not recognize myself, am foreign to me itself. I do not recognize myself because my around it is foreign to me. People do things around me. Many people, many things, other things, duplicated things, multiplied things. The life of other one is foreign. How if not, I am not other one! The […]
A way of doing the things. “I love the beginnings. The beginnings fill me with marvel. I think that the beginning is what guarantees the attainment. If this one does not take place, nothing might nor would like to exist. I take a great respect as the instruction because it is a fundamental inspiration. (…) The will to learn, the […]
Today the thing goes of definitions, of words that define others. Defining is to delimit and if we notice of Wittgenstein‘s words “the limits of my language constitute the limits of my world”, we will test our limits and will see up to where our world comes. Let’s define for example architecture, not more not less. All the members of […]
For the poet, in the construction of the necessary image to his occupation, the look is fundamental. The poetry, as the architecture, is a search. “The poetry goes out to the light when she is looked and not when one presents it” says to us Pavese1. Without this search of the poetical image, without this search that the attentive and […]
My home is my castle. Edward Coke formulates this known phrase, “For a man’s house is his castle”, at the end of the 16th century. In her the jurist Englishman was referring to the legal question on the legal authority of the master of the house not to stop to enter the men of the king without a reason legally […]
La Roiba A refuge is a refuge is a refuge. As the rose of the poem of the Stein, a house cannot – has not to – avoid be a part of what in origin all the houses are: refuges; the things are what they are – the houses are what they are-, and a house is born always, in […]
The intimacy For already a certain time I am turning him at about the intimacy. This slippery concept that it has to see with our sphere, since it would define Sloterdijk[1], more internal and that we preserve of the eager curiosity of the world that surrounds us. The intimacy is confused often with the privacy. Both are different concepts. We […]
The small thing We will begin for a confession, hello, I am called Jorge and I like the small things. If, I admit it, I like the small things and the small facts. The small things. In the bottom I believe that they all like, of one or another way. In addition, they say that it is for the small […]
Everything it has a beginning The architecture endures to live and to live endures, inexcusably, the inhabitant. Without this one we can speak about sculpture, about certain artistic facilities or about formal games, all of them of indisputable value propositivo, but difficultly we can speak about architecture in his more wide and extensive expression. This one to live carries a […]
Transparencies In 1927 Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich realize for the Werkbund Austellung celebrated in Stuttgart between July and September under Die Wohnung’s name, the Glasraum. Both had already realized one month before in Berlin the oneiric, labyrinthine and silky Coffee Samt&Seide for the exhibition Die Mode der Give Me. These stands inaugurate a collaboration between both, both professional […]
The good, the bad and the ugly Thomas De Quincey, unusual thinker and englishman writer of the 18th century, in his test Of The murder considered since one of the fine arts leaves us a famous and agreeable follow-up that gives that to think, he says this way “it begins one for a murder be allowing, soon it will not […]
A Christmas story. Loos and the Gabriela´s Christmas tree Already it is here the Christmas. Already they have arrived the announcements of perfumes, the ones of toys, the dinners, the familiar meetings and other desatinos and of course, as no, the indispensable and omnipresentes trees of Navidad. These delicate objects started of the nature or copied of her, that happen […]
Be or not be, about the beautiful To see implies, between other many things, the quality of the valuation and the comparison and, though the act of seeing is complex enough and is full of meanings, when we speak of seeing, in what to the architecture it refers, we dedicate a part to his association with the beautiful thing. The […]
The birds Occasionally, and only occasionally, in the architecture they give themselves stellar moments. Moments of this that “shine on the night of the ephemeral thing”. Fleeting moments in the time that there unleash more important and lasting actions that they themselves. Moments similar to those of these historical miniatures as which the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig reports in his […]
[1] Playgrounds After the Second World war extensive areas of many of the big European cities remained devastated. Some of them it were for effect of the systematic destruction of strategic military aims, and his ” collateral effects “, and others as clear addressees of the psychological effect that an indiscriminate and not discretionary at all bombardment, as that […]
[1] The Sounds of Silence In 1952, in the Maverick Hall, a peculiar room of concerts placed between the trees, in the middle of the forests of the New York State, a pianist sits down before the piano to interpret a piece. The piece is entitled 4 ‘ 33 “, four minutes thirty three second and the signature John Cage. […]
The Gatopardo reads Stevenson He was reading another day an interview that they were doing to Francisco Jarauta in the missing magazine Ajoblanco as far back as the year 1999[1]. In her the philosopher was asked about the paper that he believed they had to have the libraries in the transmission of the literary culture. Jarauta, accurate as always, was […]
Of the (unbearable) variability of the contemporary fact to the times of the architecture We live a time that practically everything is considered to be valid and that everything is revisable. A time in which the need to offer something new and different from everything made, and that certainly is recognized as such, prevails opposite to any other need or […]
[1] between ford and lewerentz I confess an impenitent movie fan in his more strict definition[2], though also I can say the same of the architecture. I am also an impenitent architect. Chronologically speaking the cinema it came before so, since to the first love, I guard a special place and, as the architecture, it has made me happy and […]