BOOK_ Rafael Moneo – Inquietud teórica y estrategia proyectual.
This book in resume, I would say that is an historic arportation for the architecture. I say this, because Rafael Moneo in his class in Harvard, where is the origen of this word that I read, was describing all the intelectual process from, in his point of view, are the most important archietects in the contemporany age.
As we know, Moneo take this archtects, because he feels that have “Theorical Anxiety and Projectual estrategy”, as how the tittle says. These design theory and reason processes are different from each one, but all have the commun of be part of the modern education in there starting beggin. The word Anxiety as the autor say “bring place to critic essays”, and I thing that this observation is very appropiate, not only because with this, he can describe the process of design, because he can teach us the essence of how each one see the architecture.
In this essay I’m going to talk, in my opinion, about the most interesting and influence architects. Iwould not like to not mention Siza, Gerhy, Stirling and Herzog & De Meuron, that each one had an interesting design process like, Stirling, that develop the archietctural seccion to transform it as a design weapon, something that we can see in the Koolhaas practice; or the searching of the pureness in form of Herzog & De Meuron, something as Gehry, but in a deferent way.
The first architect, in which I focus, is Rem Koolhaas. His primordial and caracteristic vision of architecture is the development of a perfect building program, in a way that I thing as the funtion create shape, but with the advantage of have an excellent talent to manage it. This is something that I like to much, because he reference the architecture to something that a lot of people forgot, Structure, and when I say structure I don’t mean the sopport of the building, I mean the develop of the user inside it, how it works, how it lives. The other aspect that make Koolhaas part of my prestige selection is the development of his thinking, like Venturi both change the way to see architecture. In different times but with the same impact, both develop some ideas that are diferent, but the point of start is the same. This point is that both create a concience of what is happening in the world, think why the popular thinking can give us something very interesting. The anxiety that we see here in both architects is the best example that Moneo show us in this book, the critic that they make to the modernism is escential.
For the next architects, I what to put them in a same category. Eisenman and Rossi, this two architects are so different in they design tecnics, but they have in commun there point of view about architecture. They give to our profesion the quality of science, and they take very opposite path to confirm it. Rossi take the iconography as his way to make architecture and Eisenman with the programatic develop of design, are the paths that they take to prove the science side of architecture. For me this approach to the scientific side of architecture is a weapon with blades. In one hand I think that is very correct what they try to do, forget all about the thinghs that can destroy the essence but in the other hand it can help us to see the most pure elements of it. This is something that Eisenman expirience when he lost the path and go to the extreme of create just a composition, but he became in balance when he sopport his architecture with some philosophical theory that create the Deconstructivism (french literature).
To finish this words, I think that I’m going to use a word develop for this class. MULTI-ORTHODOX; this word reflex what is this book to me. From have a similar modern architecture education each one had being creating his own opinion and develops a personal orthodoxia that is in constant evolution. What I take is this numerous chioces of opinions, giving to all the architects that are in the book the right reason of what they think. But this create in me the anxiety to architecture in other way; My Way.
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