The matter

Abstract

Idealism and materialism, those two antagonistic visions of philosophy, are constantly perceived in architecture. Juan Gris said that a nail was made with the idea of a nail, while Braque thought that a nail was made with an iron.
Thought and project action have been the same for us, the material of projects. We agree with the classic idea that poetic is "what is done that does, what is constructed that constructs." Praxis makes architecture the union between theory and practice, understanding it as praxis-process. Projecting would be the most significant act of architectural praxis, since it is the wise way to build that is self-referential with the very essence of the project. We consider that it would be an occasion for debate, for continuous reasoning, something more complex and dense in its intellectual and cultural formation than the mere accurate or sagacious resolution of a problem.