描述
From 2001 to 2010, the magazine “O Monografías” was published under the direction of Juan Creus, Pablo Gallego-Picard and Fernando Quesada. Over the course of the six published issues, five areas of reflection essential to the experience of space have been developed in a monographic manner: Objects, Body, Room, House, City. The plural, transversal, multidisciplinary and transnational vision is present in each of the monographs in the search for a precise, complex and complete treatment of each of the subjects of study and reflection proposed.
The House has long since ceased to be something clearly defined because of the very indefinability of its boundaries, both physical and meaningful. Hence, in this new monograph, as in the previous ones – Object, Body and Room – very varied readings of the House meaning spectrum are presented. But now we enter a more ambiguous space in which the relationships are more complex: rather than about the House, it would be appropriate to talk about the way of life in the space.
From the house defined by a wall that surrounds the air like a line on the earth, to the prototype in the condensing garden of a lifestyle we can realize that in all of them the variety of intentions proposed to us by its creators and inhabitants (distribution use, vision form meaning .. . ) are a reflection of the conception of the house as the essential process of man’s life. With her needing more time,
movement and action appear, construction and destruction, a whole series of marks and traces that are distributed inside and outside.
However, despite the traditional concept of the House as a refuge for the development of family life not being extinct – nor does it seem that it will be completely – the truth is that it has lost its central place. Nowadays, there are many more ways of living in the home than there were 50 years ago, which is why it must coexist with other, more heterogeneous ways of inhabiting the space.
But the House continues to be the privileged place for the writing of the autobiography as an act or temporary container; the script of the experience changes, but the need for a stage remains. Finally, we only have to state that the architecture of the House must tend more towards the possibility of shaping living spaces than towards the construction of designed spaces. It is something that seems more and more difficult to achieve because what is designed is the subject itself.
