Remembering the Academy
Thinking Space
So in projects like house X, we see this influence of a strictly formal architecture. The result of the understanding and complication of the geometry he had observed in the architects of the 70s in New York (five Architects). Dazzled by the mastery with which they handled geometry, I set out to emulate them and to project in this way concepts like dynamism, antifuncional, post modernism, weapons with which I defended a naive but passionate project. I firmly believed that the only way to understand our dwelling was to imitate current discourses, but I forgot that only the historical distance allows us to truly understand the contents of a conceptual proposal.
Gradually I understood that the architectural projection is a mixture of the passion of an artist for expressing what he feels with the cold head of the knowledge of history and his own questioning. I learned more of history and with this I was opening windows to questions more and more essential. Questions that I realized that I should not only look at the history of architecture or the history of art, but should look through philosophy. A history teacher for whom I felt incredible appreciation for his teachings, he proposed that I read a book about a philosopher building a house. My way of giving back to him what he had bequeathed to me was this. It was to take me seriously the subject he proposed to me and show him what I understood now thanks to him. Without knowing it, this was my starting point in a race to answer through knowledge the question for which I had intuitively proposed to be an architect. A path that led me not only to be an architect, but also to study philosophy. The knowledge of aesthetics became paramount in the search for meaning that from the first day I had proposed. This mixture of architecture and philosophy would be reflected from now on in all my projects.
