We are all more or less agree on the Palau Güell considered as one of the best buildings in the world. Architecture in case, go. The Güell Palace is a palace, in fact. It is a pavilion for concerts, masses, a cigar lounge, a barely living space open to the street (premium, thanks to do so, the oblique views because they were at the time of its construction to a whorehouse in the attic of whom were living Pablo Picasso, which made it twice damned), a room reception and a few blocks. The Palau Güell was truly at hand, at the corner of Nou de la Rambla and Rambla, and before there was an annex where the owner's mother lived. This was Eusebi Güell, who, along with Antonio López, Marqués de Comillas, and the Count of Romanones, were the richest people in Spain. While the three (unrelated between them, sharing a pleasure government posts, as prime minister last) put the country in the War of Morocco to protect their property, among other nonsense. Güell instructed its architect, Antoni Gaudí such, spending more money on building better. It is said that the question that made her accountant to start the day was "when it spent yesterday Gaudí?." Access ramps and paving blocks are an expensive Cuban mahogany, lest the horse slipped and above, hiciesen too much noise. The following is a gallery of African wood (and then rarely) even more expensive, totally unchanged, though, and today it is perfectly preserved. And trencadís? No. It was never a resource for ceramic leftovers: Jujol will need to wait for that. Were broken ceramic tiles of the best houses, broken and placed carefully on the basis of hundreds of hours of skilled labor. Some of them came from the best factories of Murano.
... and the Palau Güell is still an extraordinary architectural work of the best in the world. Because, until four days ago, most of the architecture did not business ethics. Many of the examples we have made throughout history are promoted and posh houses inhabited by the global economic elite, obsessed with representing his taste in expensive buildings, sometimes with a point obscene, but invariably still underperforming as examples of good architecture.
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An English beer drinker of 37 years, with some pint hooligan that enables him to do, quietly, as an extra in some of the novels of Irvine Welsh, has been one of the architects the paradigm shift of world architecture. His name is Cameron Sinclair. Raised in a poor suburb of south London in the heart of Thatcherism, he graduated as an architect make a year old and started working on important studies of those who make modern versions of that face enterprise architecture, which serves four long they've been able to pay. Over the weekend, with a charge of consciousness, decided to meet with a few friends to fix the world through their own profession. The difference with other drinking games that do the same thing is that he finally is doing it for real. On January 19 came to explain the COAC, in a conference held in the tank, until now an exhibition hall, with pedestrians stopping to look at him, illuminated, possibly in the headlights of a car that the Autonomous Police spent there ("Did I Said Something wrong?").
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brewers in those afternoons Saturday, Sinclair founded an NGO called Architecture for Humanity (AFH). Quite simply, AFH works for those who can not afford an architect. Exactly 95% of the population. Until now, architects have been part of a triangle whose other two vertices to the builder and developer. Relations between them cost money. Eventually generate. In any case, the final product is related to inbreeding and who can afford it: the remaining 5%, which we get money from ATMs made at night, in dorms who have no other shelter. That when you do not close before locked. One billion people (one trillion U.S.: Sinclair moved to Sausalito) nestled in the world live in poverty. Four billion more describe themselves as "emerging classes." That is, they do not want to be poor. Or do not want to call it themselves. Their locations and their caseloads are as varied as humanity itself: from Indian reservations in the USA (the rates of alcoholism and suicide highest in the world) to the victims of Katrina throughout the Gulf of Mexico , USA included. Victims of the tsunami in Indonesia for victims of the snipers in Kabul. Earthquake in Chile, Pakistan, Haiti. Hunger as a first side effect. Cholera. Drug trafficking, organized crime, selling "protection" the pormayor. Lack of schools, housing, running water, electricity, any kind of service. Drained land to play football. Civic center. Of anything that we find around the corner so much that neither you think about it. AFH
architects sent to these places. Living in tents in refugee camps. Live in dilapidated buildings. Often they do not have running water, internet, change of clothes, decent beds to sleep at night. Like their customers. Some have three master, leaving behind well-paid jobs. The rise at three in the morning when a canvas tent flood. Build shelters for pregnant women in one week with two thousand dollar budget. Because that's the point: we all have ideas. Some even have good. But do not live in an idea. Do not eat it, do not sleep in it, nor will shelter you from the cold and prevent heat stroke. AFH built. First of all constructs. Constructed above. Performed. Runs, manages, educates and let education.
Cameron Sinclair is the ideologist of this, and a fast learner, is influenced by the environment, proposes, reacts, fixes on the fly and, especially, does not stand still. After a fabulous project that had everything in mind (program, gravity, sustainability, prevailing winds, beauty, blah, blah, blah) but was not accepted the community had the courage to ask why and find the answer: distance. At end-users such technification both classroom effort, study, architect-builder relationship seemed excessive, foreign. Since then, working together. Selling cultural distances. Involve the community, local artists, to the fathers, children. Use the final judging in the competitions, designers, laborers. Learn to accept their verdict and teaching. Breaking barriers with the people, up to flirt with demagoguery, and why? The issue is coming, no matter what. Communicate, propose.
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The weapon: the project. Genesis of the project as whole. Capture needs, seek funding, involve stakeholders and move forward. The project as an intermediary between an organized mafia and an architect who tries to help his neighborhood. The project as an integral element of the previous conditions that they will answer a building well-structured, well thought out, well executed. The project as an open process that goes far beyond the building itself, which involves ways of using it, live it, to keep it. The project as sensitivity. Before we left
(another) beer drinker with three master and less than twenty pounds of luggage going to live for four years to a devastated area of \u200b\u200bthe Earth. This man is young, ambitious. Sensitive. Wants to conquer the world, to express themselves, so make good architecture as a Foster either. And that's exactly what he does. AFH sell this: dignity. The beer drinker with three master charge for their work. Because we are technical architects charge for work. Because these things are done on a Monday morning first thing and not at eight pm on a typical day, when you get tired from work, and there will Buea, yields only 20% of what you pay. Because this is not to be a hobby not a sacrifice. In exchange work from sunrise to sunset seven days a week. A change materialize their wildest architectural dreams at 20 € / m2, hopefully, without compromise, or strange architectural forms, or sustainable epic episodes. A change to catch on their customers. Learn that a photovoltaic solar panel is not used to heat water on an electric burner for free, but to assemble a top-up business demand. Learn that a green roof is to be calculated with quadruple the overweight than would apply in the first world because it will be used as a platform for a party with DJ when the building is inaugurated. Learn to listen, a tattoo left the building with paintings that same feel awful but are important to users. Learn to integrate, prioritize work. Learn to be serious.
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The moment that struck me the conference was precisely when he began to explain all this. The event began with a video rompesensibilidades, those who systematically ignore youtube unless accompanied by an unreleased song of any group gafapastero worth, which in this context, it made sense even fooling around again, or boot with demagogy. Afterward, Sinclair went on to explain the genesis and operation of NGOs: A brilliant orator, indeed. After a quarter of an hour or minute chat vente looked around the stalls and, with that face of hunger that I know a thousand other conferences, said, "... but you are probably bored. We talk about projects? "I, who did not understand anything, I sighed, preparing for the usual ration of a gable roof with Arabic tiles and structure Bamboo, accompanied by a number of justifications that often begin with some of the billions of variations on the phrase "per the circumstances, you know ..." so far have burdened this type of architecture. No. What I saw then decontextualise perfectly and could have lead to any other conference in any other architect of the first world hunger: projects to sack. Projects uncompromising, well-drawn, rendered and mock-ups (sometimes with a single plane of execution), with formal will, aesthetics, with the same desire to express that to have any starchitect who has dropped the project of his life in Times Square , Catalunya Square or Piccadilly Circus. Because is not to be professionalized. These are architects. It is they think, they feel, that act as architects, led to a different audience, unpublished. An audience that knows no crisis. An audience that does not stop to get funding to start. An audience with constant demand for labor and brains, inexhaustible, demanding, calling for all our talent with more force than any rich man with a blank check. That demands organizational skills, facts, foreign ideas, to the drawings, the previous work, publications and noise. An audience, but, thankfully, demanding, you want to repeat, that needs repeating. A public demand incessantly what you need. A public that fulfills our wildest dreams, can be educated through the architecture. Through a building well done, satisfied demand, a truly listen. If you require a pergola this store and purge water. A home is security. A hospital, a pavement. A cover, a park. And do it well is to restore their dignity, increase our own brothers and, ultimately, grow as a society.
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collapsed in Haiti an entire refugee camp after a tremendous storm. The canvas tents blew away. Everyone got wet, were cold, were desperate as they lost utensils and children lost in the shuffle. Among the people started running the slogan to go back again to hospital because it was "the only building around the golf course was designed by an architect" was the pregnant women's hospital built in a week that I mentioned earlier. That is credibility: the building held, with the wind, the rain, pregnant and with a whole floor collapsed stilts of people who wanted shelter from the weather. Will aesthetics, professionalism, ethics, commitment and always fun and keep dreaming: this is the real architecture of the XXI century. When you are among friends drinking a beer (or five, equivalent to one dinner) at a bar somewhere thinking of leaving the amount on the table and send then to AFH. Probably see him become the school a month later.
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