Read it and pass it on (1995)
I don't know if I'll know how to explain it well. More than a reason is an instinct. It is an impulse, which makes you want to learn, to know with anger. I think that without this point of irritation, of intransigence, of hate, there is no learning.
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Abstracción en arquitectura: una definición (2000)
The abstract procedure diverts the architectural work towards the syntactic side, giving priority to the rules of formal construction of the object itself; the interest is then shifted from the elements to the relationships established between them and to the principles of composition that regulate them.
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Order and form (1955)
A Form emerges from the structural elements inherent in the form. A dome is not conceived when questions arise how to build it.
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Obras Maestras (2009)
Everything I know comes from my work. I only know what I know how to do. Doing is my only source of certainty. I have no love for knowledge, since that is the premise of my ignorance, but yes for knowing, which, however, it represents my possibility.
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Art, taste and judgement (2008)
The aesthetic pleasure mobilizes knowledge instruments, the imagination, and the understanding, and is linked to the recognition of the form; in other words, it involves an aesthetic judgement.
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Texts
To do architecture, is to revive elements that already exist: not about inventing the courts, the drainpipes, the vaults and roofs, the walls, the openings and the transparencies, the hall, the gallery and the squares. To do architecture is to have a tacit agreement with the history, since every work prepares the next; it is the result of a hard practice in search of essentials.
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Forma y diseño (1961)
School began with a man under a tree, who did not know he was a teacher, sharing his realization with a few, who did not know they were students.
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