No exercício da arquitectura a ausência é valiosa e aliciante, tanto ou mais que a presença…todos dias trabalho no vazio, que se transforma pouco e pouco em organismos vivos. Projecções da minha alma!
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René Burri – México 1969 |
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2.26 am, hour of thought
Being an architect is not what I am, it is not a position. It’s a purpose, a goal for each day, every day of my life.
Architect, not because Architecture defines me, but because in its most diverse branches it personifies everything I long to understand, touch and think. I choose this path, because I do not see myself in another, so broad and detailed at the same time. I love it because it is made for Man and his size does not give preference to social strata or bank balances. It is the greed of the self that destroys the beauty of its essence.
In the exercise of architecture the absence is valuable and attractive, as much or more than the presence … every day I work in the void, that little by little transforms into living organisms. Projections of my soul!
Architecture, evils of my life, smiles of my existence. Word from which I turn away, , home where I always want to return!