a copy of a thought

Sometimes I think if I really feel for being an architect. 
It is not a reflection granted. Just think of what you meet with a client who, in his ignorance, tries to convey the connotations that its future home will have and the Architect, interpreter between what is the idea and what is done is in the process , able to sum up with a line that investors want. 

A desire which is much deeper than mere beauty driven by fashion, beauty define a popular word used improperly by people who think they can baptize with this sneaky word-objects, a desire that is much deeper to see and appreciate desire realized. 

What a buyer wants is to feel at home. He wants to love because he knows that he's the owner and no one else has access to it. The beauty he wants to go beyond the global aesthetic connotations. The house will be the object of desire that every day, at any time, you can transmit what it is and nothing else. Your home. 

The house is the life of a man, a view material of a desire made moves in every moment, but can deliver the best in moments of silence, which comes into direct contact with what's around you. Being in a home means to feel feelings of safety and gentleness that only you can try them. 

It's not nice having a room designed and ordered the best, but he is loving the feeling of having a residence such as your deepest desire and he wanted to. It is in that moment when you realize that you live to be home. 
Like when you open the door to enter. "I'm home!" 

The architect must make clients feel at home in their home. It 'a perceptive work of synthesis that only a great designer can do. 


"The architect, artist, when he builds a house does not seek praise for formal values, aesthetic or style, or taste these values after a few years are" outdated. " The highest praise to which he must draw is that the inhabitants say: Architect, this house that you have done for us... we live in it (or have lived) with our happiness: we love it. It is a happy event of our lives. But this is more mind you need the architect to the inhabitants that aesthetics, and aesthetic values reach only so sure, cast by the right format, aesthetic forms indisputable, true: human. [...] 



The architect, the artist, to interpret the character is curious men and women: love them and love: the true architect should fall in love, for every house that makes or furnishes, clothes (and housing). "

Madrid reminds

Amazing moments in Madrid

that moment

the moment when you think nothing is more important

the moment that you live in solitude

the time that you hate

the moment that makes you hate yourself

the moment when you have not realized what is happening to you

the moment when someone thanks you

the moment when you say thanks to someone, but he will not hear it

the time when you have greeted someone who you did not know

the time that you remember

that moment when you smile

the moment when you feel stronger than before and move on

the moment you get up again

the moment when you realize you are older

the moment when you hold a person in your arms

the moment when you feel good about yourself

the time when you do a favor to others

The moment you start to love

il momento in cui pensi che niente è importante

il momento che vivi in solitudine

il momento che odi

il momento che ti fa odiare te stesso

il momento in cui non ti sei reso conto di cosa ti stesse accadendo

il momento in cui qualcuno ti ha ringraziato

il momento in cui tu hai detto grazie a qualcuno, ma questo non ti ha ascoltato

il momento in cui tu hai salutato qualcuno che non conoscevi

il momento che ti ha segnato la giornata

quel momento in cui hai sorriso

il momento in cui ti senti più forte di prima e vai avanti

il momento in cui ti rialzi

il momento in cui ti accorgi di essere più grande

il momento in cui stringi tra le tue braccia una persona

il momento in cui ti senti bene con te stesso

il momento in cui fai un favore agli altri

il momento in cui inizi ad amare

the Architect

We do not know where is the boundary between normality 'of a thing and the love you feel for it;

the own passions are like the delicate petals of a rose, that you need to cultivate, knowing that might have alovely color, but also that could fly at any moment without having the hope of getting it back in your hands ..

and so what i study..

Architecture ..

maybe for me it's everything I'm searching in my life.

and perhaps it's too much to say but' I find nothing more remarkable in the world of being able to design solutions for people.

Not in a political way, or practical.

It's a human fact that involves the realization of a man's dream that you build with your ideas.

There are people dying for their house, there are people who defend their own house and this is the highest expression of human understanding to be able to build a house for one person.

It creates friendship. confidence is created.

You create emotions, you create security. Privacy is created.

It creates spirituality... you create a building where you are allowed to meditate.

When you are faced with a blank sheet of paper and you're just aware that your pencil will go'to draw even a simple library, you know that that building will be' “the building” for many people, will be 'a place to socialize, friendships will born in there,love will born there,it will create culture, it will make possible the ideas of many.

It's a matter of great responsibility, the Architecture.

must be made with the heart, the Architecture ...

because it's the passion and love of a person... a lover.

A lover who will not care about celebrity or richness.

This lover cares about to know that, what he's drawing, will be a project that will recognize his light, his hope, his emotion, his love...

...and only this lover, the Architect, will be 'able to love like that.

l'architettura

Non sappiamo dove sta il limite tra la normalita' di una cosa e l'amore che si prova per essa;

le proprie passioni sono come dei petali delicatissimi di una rosa che bisogna coltivare sapendo che potrebbero avere dei colori adorabili, ma sapendo anche che potrebbero volare da un momento all'altro, senza poi aver la speranza di riaverli tra le nostre mani..

Cosi e' quello che studio nel mio intimo.

..l'Architettura

per me forse e' tutto quello che sto cercando nella mia vita

forse e' esagerato dirlo pero' non trovo niente di piu straordinario al mondo del fatto di poter progettare le soluzioni per la gente.

non e' un fatto politico, pratico.

E' un fatto umano che si concretizza con la realizzazione di un sogno di un altro. che tu costruisci con le tue idee.

E' la massima espressione della comprensione umana riuscire a realizzare una casa per una persona.

Si crea amicizia. si crea fiducia, si creano emozioni, si crea sicurezza, si crea intimita', si crea spiritualita'... si realizza cio' che permette all'uomo di meditare.

Quando ti trovi di fronte ad un foglio bianco e sei solo, consapevole che la tua matita andra' a disegnare anche una semplice biblioteca, sai che quell'edificio sara' l'Edificio per molte persone, sara' un luogo in cui socializzare, sara' un luogo dove nasceranno amicizie, nasceranno amori, si creera' cultura, si renderanno possibili le idee di molti.

E' un fatto di magnifica responsabilita', l'Architettura.

va fatta con il cuore, l'Architettura...

perche' e' la passione e l'amore di una persona, amante.

Un amante a cui non interessa sapere se sara' o meno conosciuto, se sara' piu o meno ricco.

a questo amante interessa solo sapere che cio' che sta disegnando con la sua matita sara' un progetto che riconoscera' la sua luce, la sua speranza, la sua emozione, il suo amore...

...e solo lui, l'Architetto, sara' in grado di amare cosi.

El Croquis + Levene House in El Escorial, Madrid. UEM

It has been a very interesting morning, this one, through the spanish architecture masterpieces in El Croquis showroom in El Escorial / Madrid.

 After the visit to this beautiful showroom (we've also met Fernando Marquez Cecilia, founder of the magazine) we visited Casa Leneve, in El Escorial. I just leave some images. it's something amazing.

Thanks again to my professor Miguel Luengo Angulo and my classmates from Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Filippo

PS: here a Louis Kahn book signed from Fernando Marquez Cecilia

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thoughts of an architect

"A work of art is not a living thing as it walks or runs

but the making of the life, that which gives you a reaction;

to somebody's the wonder of man's fingers, 

to somebody's the wonder of the mind, 

to somebody's the wonder of technique,

and to some it is how real it is, to some how transcendant it is, 

like the 5th Symphony...

it presents itself with a feeling,

that you know it if you heard it once, and you'll look for it;

though you know it, you must hear it again,

though you know it, you must hear it again.

Truly, a work of art is one that tells us that

nature cannot make what man can make."

- Louis I. Kahn

relationships

"Relationships don't work the way they do on television and in the movies. Will they? Won't they? And then they finally do, and they're happy forever. Gimme a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren't right for each other to begin with, and half of the ones who get married get divorced anyway, and I'm telling you right now, through all this stuff, I have not become a cynic, I haven't. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate covered candies and, y'know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don't care, because I do believe in it. Bottom line is: it's couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don't let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time. If it's right, and they're real lucky, one of them will say something."

"I rapporti non funzionano come in tv o al cinema... 9/10 si mollano perche' non sono ben assortiti fin dall'inizio.
 Credo che l'amore serva solo a vendere cioccolatini...datemi dell'ingenuo, ma continuo a crederci. 
In buona sostanza le coppie veramente giuste sguazzano in mezzo alla stessa ***** di tutti gli altri e la differenza e' che non si lasciano sommergere... uno dei due si fara' forza ogni volta che occorre lottera' per quel rapporto (se e' giusto e se sono fortunati). 
Uno dei due dira' qualcosa."



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