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Diagram of Exteriority

Writing this narrative text of the diagramming process is a retrospective act. It takes a process that did not have an inner trajectory and forces it to obey such a narrative structure. The first diagrams in my Ph.D. thesis were never intended as the beginning of such a process. Rather, that work intended to distinguish my idea of the formal from other interpretations of the time. It proposed a relationship of built work to an interiority of architecture, something that seemed to be absent from other formal discourses. Most formal studies at the time concerned an analysis and explanation of buildings. My use of the diagram, therefor, was fairly innocent. It was a way of opening up the relationship between an interiority and individual buildings. As the idea of interiority began to develop in my own work, the diagram also beacme more implicated: it was not only explanatory but also generative. however, when the diagram became a generative device – when it was not merely used to explain the relationship between a building and interiority – it introduced other concerns. It suggested an alternative relationship between the subject/author and the work. Such an alternative suggested a movement away from classical composition and personal expressionism toward a more autonomous process. Diagrams became a means to uncover something outside of my own authorial prejudices. In this sense, diagramming was was potentially a more rational and quasiobjective means to understand what I was doing. It was also a means to move away from a subjective consciousness to an unconscious diagramming apparatus. Second the process suggested that the built work could manifest the traces of the diagramming process as a means of relating built work to the interiority of its discourse.
As the diagrams progressed through the houses, two issues concerning interiority became clear: (1) the diagrams assumed that interiority was an “a priori” condition of value, that is, a stable set of geometric icons, and (2) in transforming the geometry of the diagram into architecture, it was realized that geometry does not merely transform itself from a diagram to become architecture. Architecture is something more than geometry; walls have thickness, and space has density. Thus the value placed on any geometry – euclidean or topological – as a prior condition of interiority would always be contingent on some architectural interiority. Thus, as the diagrams shifted from Euclidean to topological geometry, it was seen that this substitution of one geometry for another merely displaced the value given to Euclidean geometry without displacing geometry itself. This raised other questions: Why did the diagram necessarily evolve form some preexistent geometry? Why did the diagram begin from an architectural interiority that was not seen as a stable condition of essences? If interiority was unstable, was it possible that some other process other than transformation was appropriate to diagramming? As an initial answer to these questions, the idea of a process of decomposition suggested that the interiority of architecture could be seen as a complex phenomenon from which a less complex condition of the object could be distilled. Interiority in this sense was no longer seen as either pure and stable or necessarily geometric. But because architecture is always based in geometry, the value of a formal universe as an embodiment of architecture was still present. In order to displace these embodied values, a series of other diagrams was introduced into the diagrammatic process that were not based in geometry, which could be seen in some way to relate to, but at the same time be distanced from, an interiority as it had been previously defined. Thus, a series of external texts was introduced in an attempt to displace that which seemed embodied, immanent, and ultimately motivated in architecture’s interiority. [...]
(P. Eisenman)

Faith

It's like when you try to get something more on your life.
It happens that sometime you hit your dream and it becomes truth and it happens sometime that your idea or your thought just stay in your mind keeping up you dreams.

life is like a game

the difference between game and life is that you can't believe in something else than win when you play otherwise you will just be the guy who "tried". In your life you need to keep "everything" going on and when i say everything i mean "everything"... your life, your job, your studies, your love, your thought, your religion.

...and sometime it's like you need to be strange for the others because they are just different from you (or for you?)
and sometime you just need to be yourself.
it's unfair to say this because it should be perfect if we could just be ourself every time we meet other people and it should be awesome to be ourself in every kind of situation because it's just being ourself that make us perfect for our life.

i think that it's just the way we want to appear.
we can be egoist, honest, unfair, lucky, bad guys.
but time we will never change what we are for real.
it's like our faith comes true every time we try to cheat on it.

and this is the most beautiful thing that can happen.
at the end we are just the person we show to be.

we are like a story, and our story is what we want to be. our faith teaches what we are going to be.


"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking" cit. Gibran

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simple

Sometimes a moment, sometimes all life long you need to understand who you are facing.
Sometimes we live with illusions and just when that mirrow is broken we can see things that we should discover time ago..




It seems that sometimes the world revolves around us and at a certain moment everything which was "past" become just a memory with the world ...
Other times we wake up and realize that we live in a world that we never would have expected.

We can be strong, capable, clever or good magicians,
but we will never cheat our fate
because it is smarter than us.
Not others.

... Sometimes we need just a little gesture to discover a smile can change your day ...
... The touch of a child, a hug and other small gestures with their delicacy convey strong emotions.

Sometimes we fall asleep so happy that we desire that morning again.
Other times we are afraid to wake up.
Not everything always goes as it sounds.
The important thing is knowing that every day we grow
and this is the greatest gift that we have granted.
Only then we can realize how beautiful and great is the simplicity.

modernism

The quest of beauty has always brought people to a study of what the aesthetic might give them in practical terms.

Ordering all these things we could understand how the “beautiful” is a pure intuition of the human eye in front of an aesthetic formalism that structurally responds to the artistic demands often personal.

A beauty so subjective that draws its formal expression by a pure intuition.

Purity behind the objectivity of a studied work; precise because pure.

“an aesthetic judgments can be accomplished when the human mind perceives a sequence of elements, such as a sequence of notes in the case of a musical composition, colors in the case of painting, architecture or space ( JF Herbart).

Until a few centuries ago, the benchmark for any architecture was the classic, the story, then fixed to mediate between theory and practice of architecture. The last time you face these issues in a completely different design. The knot that holds together the architect in architectural thought is the social function. This implies a design approach that puts first the problem of the generic form that responds to social needs.

It ‘important to understand because it means that you will lose the value of the building as an entity isolated from the context. 

“In practical terms it is clearly impossible to create a specific building having as an objective absolute fixed end, as each new unit will not only change the existing order, but also change, with its very presence, each unit future” (P. Eisenman)

I also agree with Rowe when he said that nothing more could happen in architecture since 1965, or after the death of Le Corbusier. Rowe interprets it as the work of Swiss architect was the culmination of the “most sophisticated modernist formalism".

Today we could easily make up for the Kantian thought that what is central to the idea of form is the process of understanding intended as a pure form of intuition or as a form of thought, namely as a process through which the conceptual mediated the different forms of intuition. For Kant the concept of form refers not to the phenomenology of the superficial things, but the process of formation of the representation of objects that you can find in the nature. As argued by Gasche, the idea of form is the synthesis process without sensible intuition from which no cognitive process may arise.

It's was a "Bella Lezione" - Europan 11

Sometime you just woke up thinking to your business and work, but sometime it happens that you can just think at some things like "yesterday i've been in Eindhoven for Europan 11 award ceremony". that's crazy but it happened like this.


We didn't have a clue of what was going on last days because we received an e-mail some weeks ago saying to go to Eindhoven for the 14th for the award ceremony of Europan 11 . no more, no less .
So we went: we actually were guys from Italy, Spain and France meeting the 13th in Brussels to visit it since it's a very interesting city (i just want to remember la "Galerie de la Reine"-1847).

Lucky me I have my friend Zeynep living there if not i should walk around looking for an hotel! Thanks Zeynep!

The 14th we left the city at 9am ready to go to Eindhoven and we arrived there at 1pm.
I have to be honest; as first impression Eindhoven is presented like a very contemporary city trying to dialog with the past and there's a very interesting thing to say as well: there's a good dialog between Architecture and Art within the centre.
It's amazing how they manage the streets, how they can manage the walk ways and the respect they have for cyclists.
As I said the first impression was so good. I would love to go back there one day :) hope soon.

The award ceremony begins anyway.
Little coffee break where we met some very interesting guys from Holland and then ready for the conference.

The conference was well organized and the speakers were so funny but so good because they were just reading a text and a lot of time they lost themselves reading their own paper. Anyway they began the announcement of the finalists.

All the groups called as finalist had a very nice project that and really appreciated another thing; the jury's Assessment was very critic and honest and true :)

In our section the first price was won by some spanish guys leaded by: Francisco Javer Castellano Pulido, Tomas Garcia Piriz, Luis Miguel Ruiz Aviles, Paloma Baquero Basatz and Juan Antonio Cerrano Garcia.
These guys were from Cuac Arquitectura in Granada and they did a very interesting work. I personally really appreciate they way they managed the housing and its composition. I hope i will get a section or a plan of their work in the next days so i will publish it here (if i can).

But obviously the best group wasn't the first price! :-)
The personally best one was our group who got the 2nd price (runner-up)!
Alina and Leonardo, our group leads, went to receive the honor and the price (Alina was almost dying when the speaker called her :-) ).
Our project was very interesting from the master plan and composition point of view but it wasn't very well composed in the housing-typology and representation.
But as Ivo said: you guys got a "bella lezione" today. And we can promise that we will be stronger for the next Europan and we'll try to hit that thing that the spanish guys got this year :)

I think that sometime these kind of things teach you how to grow up. we are so happy now but we are stronger because we now understand how we can still grow up for the future, both personally and as group, and if those spans guys didn't join this Europan 11 we could probably win the 1st price but honestly it's better like this (i'm talking as student now because it's clear that the first price is always the best).

After that conference the Europan 11 group moved to TU/e Showroom where the university organized first an exhibition of the winners (we were so proud to see our work exposed) and then a dinner between the groups leads (and me and our friend went to try the KFC in Eindhoven).

It was a great experience guys. This is just a way to start to be an architect maybe because from these little things you begin to understand what's going on out of your university and around europe. it's so useful to meet other architects from other countries and then talk with some developers and understand their point of view as well.

We are just so happy of this

So many thanks again to our group!! Thanks to LAP office, Alina Lippiello, Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Filippo Zordan, Fabio de Ciechi, Manuele Mossoni, Annalisa Romani, Pierre Bertrand Guyot de Hardruyere, Fausto Cuzzocrea and Vesna Markovic!! A special thanks to Ivo which was so patience with us and brang us to this awesome trip through holland!

It was  Bella Lezione and a great Experience

See you in Europan 12 maybe :)

Filippo Zordan