1. The architecture is built at the mercy of the earthquake. Two key moments housing. Which arises from the ground and look for the top of the clouds, and which melts in shreds from the heights to flat terrain. Two moments present life: the rise and fall.
2. The architecture teaches us to desire. We want the comfort of our lives any means, literally, anywhere. That is, in a comfortable, without aridity, smoothly. That desire is transformed into an aesthetic ideal. Not only a comfortable but a beautiful place. Then the architecture teaches us to envy. Supernally place no satisfactory means spending in the stubbornness of desire is what prevails. The architecture is always desire and dissatisfaction, or satisfaction for only hope again.
3. The earth, the tectonic is what remains. The architecture is ephemeral, fleeting, momentary , uncertain: the bunker more regional or less stable hut the earth to shake like a plague, like a parasite undesirable. The architecture is always device, changing poetic building.
4. The architecture is always threshold: an inside of a space one outside a space. Above is a circumstance, is after another. There is no threshold beginning of any construction process or end of any structure in collapse.
5. Pinnacle and architrave, the highest part, the part low. Like any abstraction before laying its foundation or set the highest peak, before the circumstances space or become the preserve of the landscape, architecture first is a thought, an imagination, a draft unlikely and sometimes impossible, so start with pretensions transcendent, and ends in detritus of decadence: lots
remains vacant and reports.
6. The architecture is aesthetic contemplation, but this has nothing to do with housing functionality. Contemplation is about moods artistic, religious or philosophical: none of the three has to do with everyday life within the architectural structure. O yes, but in a casual, no causal , from the viewpoint of random. One always admires the houses of others, the one inhabits it, live it.
7. But architecture is primarily sculpture, painting and poetry. The first is erection of walls, the two waters of the sky, the clouds of the windows, the second is the sunflowers its side, the reflexivity of their whiteness, earthly tones and primary personality and the third is that do with the admiration the viewer, the gaze of the traveler, the contemplation of space become stanza.
8. The architecture began with the simplicity, ie foundation, pillars and roof. The else is embellishment, aesthetic charm of color, fashion, whim forms and heights , contemplation and leisure. The architecture is basically functional, syncretism meant to be blanket of being. The architecture is necessary habitat before recreation. The architecture is room without whims.
9. Pancho, my friend Mason, which is a kind of architect without academia, you read the following thought of Le Corbusier, which is another kind of architect without academia: "The home should be the case of life The machine of happiness. " And Pancho replied: "I think that friend did not know the concept infonavit."
10. However, any house, a house, designed, planned and built for several generations. In light of the desert and flashes of the big city. The great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, children and their children inhabiting the same house. Some come, some go, take turns, but the sequence continues. Although not move, the house always walks, but collapse, if it arises. Generación tras generación la casa es tradición, se convierte en un texto, en una pintura, en un símbolo, en una ética a seguir, en una costumbre para habitar. La casa es el libro educativo, la tradición oral, el cántico arrullador, la lectura de sobremesa, la escolaridad. La casa es la política, la economía, la cultura toda. La casa es la enseñanza. La casa se lleva a todas partes, aunque nunca parta.
Autor: Tomas di Bella