Cómo se construyen los edificios

For the expert eye, architecture is not seen as an action proper of human nature. It seems that when a professional architect intellectualizes its profession he separates it, without pretending to, of its most appropriate condition: that which tells that architecture is the human -living- answer to the requirements determined by the physical condition of its surroundings. But the ideas about the places we inhabit, the ideas that are the substance of its intellectualization, suppose a build-ability. It is what has been called materialization or the concretion of desire and intention. Such materialization is reached by the instrument, that defines and marks the final configuration of the converted idea, in the case of architecture, building. But one has to say that it is a subject that works both ways: man makes the tool and the tool makes man. Nevertheless, what counts is not only the deterministic relationship, but also the fact that the physical shape of things is for humans not only communication, besides it is representation. And what it represents for the architect is in other contents, the authenticity of materials and the honesty of building. The useful fallacy of the sense of things in itself is found behind this notion. If this is not kept in mind the architect falls into the simple formalism of mixing the idea of form as essence, with the form as figure. All the previous ideas lead to declare the need for knowledge as an indispensable complement of intuition, that appreciated condition in the creative act. History in this frame of vision is history of technique more than history of style.

• Autores: Rodríguez-García, César Adolfo; Echeverría-Castro, Nelcy
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2005
• Institución: Universidad Católica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RIUCaC - Repositorio U. Católica
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucatolica.edu.co:10983/15260
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10983/15260
• Palabra clave: ARQUITECTURA E HISTORIA; ARQUITECTURA Y DESEO; ARQUITECTURA Y NECESIDAD; ARQUITECTURA Y REPRESENTACIÓN; AUTENTICIDAD; CONOCIMIENTO; FABRICABILIDAD; INSTRUMENTO; ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY; ARCHITECTURE AND DESIRE; ARCHITECTURE AND NEED; ARCHITECTURE AND REPRESENTATION; AUTHENTICITY; KNOWLEDGE; BUILD-ABILITY; INSTRUMENT
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Derechos Reservados - Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2005