ROOMS
I
IT’S SIMPLE.
WE ARE BUILDING THE EARTH’S CRUST.
ADDING AND REMOVING PIECES, BIG OR SMALL, SIGNS.
LEAVING TRACES.
THERE IS NO MAJOR OR MINOR ARCHITECTURE.
THERE IS NO
BUILDING - PRAGMATIC RESPONSE
AND
ARCHITECTURE - ARTISTIC RESPONSE.
THERE IS NO LIGHT OR HEAVY.
THE TEMPORARY OR LASTING.
THERE ARE SIGNS.
THE SIGNS BECOME ROADS, CITIES, BUILDINGS AND ROOMS.
WE LIVE IN IT.
AS ON TREES AND AS IN CAVES.
WE LOOK AT THE PRIMORDIAL ASPECTS,
TECTONIC, GRAVITATIONAL.
WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN MATTER AS SUCH.
WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SPACE AS SUCH.
SPACE AND MATTER INTERESTS US AS A POSSIBILITY OF BELONGING TO A WIDER SYSTEM.
APPROPRIATING PLACES NOT BUILDING PROGRAMS.
IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE AND IT WILL BE DONE AFTER.
REPEATING OURSELVES.
II
WORKS HAPPEN.
WE ARRIVE INSIDE, WE WONDER:
WHAT DO WE WANT? WHAT DOES REMAIN? WHAT DOESN’T REMAIN? WHAT IS FOUNDING?
AND WHAT BELONGS TO US? WHAT IS THE MOST…?
WE LOOK AT THE WALLS, THE ROOM, THE BUILDING, THE CITIES, THE EARTH’S CRUST.
ONE SYSTEM, INFINITE AUTONOMIES.
THE LAST - OR THE FIRST - IS THE SPACE.
NOT A SUM BUT A SYNTHESIS.
IT’S SIMPLE.
WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF SIMPLE OPERATIONS.
WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF BANAL OPERATIONS.
IT’S A WAY TO RECOGNIZE OURSELVES IN THE ORIGINS OF OUR THOUGHT.
BRING OUT THE POSSIBILITIES.
THE NEW POSSIBILITIES.
ACCEPT THE OBVIOUS TO TILT THE CUSTOMS.
III
THERE IS IN ARCHITECTURE A KIND OF CONTINUOS PROCESS.
INFINITE.
A COLLECTIVE PROJECT IN WHICH WE ALL PARTICIPATE.
ERA AFTER ERA.
AND THEN THERE’S YOUR THOUGHT
YOUR IDEA
YOUR INTIMACY
YOUR OBSESSION.
