Architecture of small things

Abstract

If "architecture is the incorruptible witness of history", the home is, without a doubt, the irrefutable proof of how people have lived. The house, conceived from its most everyday point of view, has always been the marker of both technical and social progress. From its origin it revealed the way of life of an era and, despite the efforts of many, it ended up revealing as much about its authors as about its inhabitants.

In Arquitectura de las pequeñas cosas, the author invites us to travel with him through each of the ways of inhabiting, and also of looking at, each of the domestic nooks and crannies. The text, far from pretending to be a manifesto, is presented as an interview with the history of art and architecture over the last few centuries. But there is no correct answer, only ways of confronting each of the questions in their temporal, social and economic context.