El laberinto del diseño

Es difícil darse cuenta, entre tantos personajes, para quién diseñamos. El proceso de proyectar y construir es verdaderamente un laberinto y con cada curva nos encontramos -¿o nos chocamos?- con un personaje nuevo que se agrega a la ecuación.

Arquitectos Estrellas

A lo largo de la carrera hay algo que no deja de hacer eco en los talleres de diseño (y otras materias también), un eco que se repite sin importar la cátedra: Nombres. Resuenan al punto de que dejamos de ser estudiantes para convertirnos en fans. Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Santiago Calatrava, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster y varios más.

Pritzker 2013

Otro "Nobel de arquitectura" se va y nuevamente es un japonés. Esta vez, Toyo Ito se lleva la codiciada medalla.

Este acontecimiento solo remarca la enorme influencia que estan teniendo los arquitectos orientales en el mundo. Luego de una seguidilla de gigantes: Richard Rogers, Jean Nouvel y Peter Zumthor (ganadores 2007, 2008 y 2009 respectivamente) que desde hacía tiempo estaban en lista de espera, llegaron los orientales de la mano de Kazuyo Sejimaa y Ryue Nishizawa, Wang Shu y ahora Toyo Ito, que se convierte en el sexto japonés en recibir el premio, el doble de lo que tiene toda latinoamerica.

Algo tienen los japoneses, de alguna manera ven lo que aca no vemos (irónico no?).

Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise (1995)

Celine:  I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy... But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more? 

Jesse: I don’t know... Sometimes I dream about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times it seems silly like it would ruin my whole life. And it's not just a fear of commitment or that I'm incapable of caring or loving because... I can. It's just that, if I'm totally honest with myself, I think I'd rather die knowing that I was really good at something. That I had excelled in some way than that I'd just been in a nice, caring relationship.

Celine: I worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that. 

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt