Archictect is…
- A profesional devoted to design
- An artista, a creator
- Who provides beauty to what surrounds us
- Someone who manages to control time and space
- The one who makes architecture
- Responsible for all the consequences of his decisions
- An organized, creative person, who works together with others in a team
- A communicator, can also be a sociologist
Learing to see
- Delve into what we look at in order to turn it into thought
- Get used to analyse what surrounds us
- Drawing is a process of interpretation of reality
- Traveling allows us to acquire new points of view
- Reading allows us to travel where we cannot and to deepen ideas
- Taking photographs, understood as to create a unique gaze among the infinite possibilities
- Watching films that are composed of light, space, movement… like architecture
Learning to think
- Know how to express our thoughts and find the language and tools to interpret our ideas
- Be critical, suspicious, curious
- Collective thinking, share you ideas, continuous dialogue with colleagues
Learning to create
- Understand the needs of the users
- Understand the compositional rules of architecture from antiquity to the present day, in order to practice with them before finding one’s own way
- Understand the materials, their compatibilities, their technical characteristics and the possibilities of use
- Understand the traditional and modern construction techniques and how the architectural elements that surround us are constructed
- Find technical solutions to our ideas. Constructive viability
“Designing is a continuous process of findings” Kazuyo Sejima
“To be an architect is to know how to recognize and interpret the reality that surrounds us, but also to be able to dream and imagine things that don’t exist yet” Alfonso Muñoz Cosme
“To be an architect is to be able to turn a house into a dream. And at the same time being able to turn a dream into a house” Alberto Campo Baeza
To the young man in architecture
- None of you should take architecture for a living unless you love it as a principle of action for itself
- Get in the habit of immediately thinking about the why of things regarding whichever effect you like or dislike
- Do not take for granted that something is beautiful or ugly, but crumble every building, studying every detail. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful
- Get used to the analysis. Over time the analysis will allow the synthesis to become a mental habit
- Think “simple”. Order from the general to the particular, and never confuse them, if you do not want them to confuse you.
- To enter into the practice without maturity is to sell your birth right as an architect in exchange for a crust to die pretending to be an architect.
- Take time to prepare yourselves. Ten years of preparation for the preliminaries of architectural practice are few for any architect “who wants to rise” above his mediocrity
- Enter the field where you can see in action the machines and methods that construct modern buildings, or stay in direct and simple construction until you can arrive at a building design by the nature of construction.
- Consider it as desirable to build a hen-house as a cathedral. The dimension of the project means little in art above the monetary question. What really counts is the quality of character. Character can be big in the small or small in the big.
- Do not enter any architectural competition under any circumstances, except as novices. No competition gave the world anything of value in architecture. The jury itself is a selection of mediocrities. The first thing the jury does is to review the designs and discard the best and worst, in order, as mediocrity, to be able to judge mediocrity.