certain reduce intention rotation
sometimes you miss one spot second spot
then you like more height put it
vertical keep it moving and then when
it's done
bring the structural element
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I'm a girl who grew up in the rice
fields in in a delta in the south of
Catalonia and and someone who
immediately understood the power of
design I have been practicing as an
architect making buildings with bricks
I've been directing an institution that
has been producing exhibitions
competitions and projects around the
world for the last 10 years I have been
teaching students to try to figure out
not only what architecture husband but
what architecture could be when people
ask me what do you do I will say I ask
questions my best asset is not to answer
them but to bring back a better question
what are the things that we really care
about what are what is that that drives
us what is that that we ultimately care
how do we design buildings how do we
design a spaces how do we design
institutions that allow for a
multiplicity of voices
what I like to do is to walk through the
streets and not necessarily learned
through the histories that have been
written but observe the buildings and
try to figure out what are the lessons
that we can learn and and if there is
something there that we want to rescue
because it operates but it cautiously
has an agency because it still has the
ability to do things today that person
ate with us
we have produced a world that has been
based mostly run business models and I'm
very interested in architectures that
are based around a via models because
those business models do not allow us to
collaborate and to practice in a much
more open manner and so many of the
issues that I think I have been
addressing and I want to address is how
do we redefine architectural practice as
an architect but also a professor but
also the director operator I always say
I'm a midwife in which I allow people to
bring those ideas that they carry inside
out I like to think that I'm actually
working with and for and against and and
next to absolutely every other architect
because we should take all ownership of
the of the collective project that we
are all building when we think about
architecture over the last 20 or 30
years we have been thinking about iconic
buildings or iconic figures but
architecture is much more than that
architecture is absolutely everything
architecture exists in the social
relationships in the way in which we sit
around the table in the way in which we
engage with each other we open those who
close those who construct paths
an understanding that we are designing
constantly our interactions with each
other and with nature and with the world
and with the universe if you want
everything is architecture and that it
is not only about buildings whatever
things that we are concerned is
understanding that architecture is a way
of caring how do we rewrite history how
do we bring those voices that were
forgotten that were not invited that
were not included and how through the
rewriting of that history and the power
of architecture and the power of
criticism to understand the way in which
we we produce relationships but also we
solidify them right
history solidifies relationships
architecture solidifies structures of
power and so how do we change them how
do we realize them how do we write them
how do we and write them
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