7 de julio de 2013

9 questions (about architecture)



"The following film has been shot by the architects, constructors and dwellers involved in the nine selected works. Each take is their answer to nine key questions we asked them. Each of these answer becames a new imaginary place. By editing their answers, we take you for a brief moment to these places.":

Architects are not artists but technicians. Our job is to help others, making things easier, saving time, energy and matter.
1. Shouldn't architects be more necessary in times of need than in times of plenty?
(Casa a Bunyola. Francisco Cifuentes)

Doing architecture is a collaboration and an act of empathy between a place, a community and some particular techniques.
2. Shouldn't architects listen more and talk less?
(Llar d'infants a Pratdip. Núria Salvadó y David Tapias)

So far, the work or architects has caused an entropy increase on earth.
3. How can we become an agent that decreases this entropy?
(Escola d'art y Disseny a Amposta. David Sebastián y Gerard Puig)

The architect develops techniques that help making human habitats, transformimg the least energy and matter to provide maximun health and happiness.
4. Why do we forget about this so often?
(Casa Collage. Ramon Bosh y Bet Capdeferro)

Architecture is the act of dwelling. Otherwise, it is just logs and stones.
5. How come architecture is a noum when it should be a verb?
(La Seca. Meritxell Inaraja)

Architects are not important. What they do is not so important. What matters is the consequences of their work.
6. Can we design foreseeing what we will cause?
(Casa per a tres Germanes. Jaume Blancafort and Patricia Reus)

It is well known that architects say one thing but do the opposite.
7. Ins't it enough to do things honestly?
(Ampliación Institut Sureda i Blanes. Aina Salà and Alberto Sánchez)

Mankind can live happily without architects but not without architecture.
8. How will we work for now on?
(Piscina, Vestuario y Sala de Deportes en Jesús. Olga Felip and Josep Camps)

All this has already been said many times, a long time ago.
9. Why do we forget?
(Can Ribas. Jaime J. Ferrer)