THE DEPTH OF THE SKIN (Libro en papel)

de GUITART VILCHES, MIGUEL

Sinopsis

For a better orientation in the blurred panorama of contemporaryarchitecture, it may be adequate to insist on some basic issues thatcontinue to configure the armature of authentic architecture: matter,light, structure and emotion. These issues are essential toarchitecture as a poetic of construction and a technique of theinhabiting. The specific approach on which Miguel Guitart focuses isthe filter understood as tension between geometry, structure, gaze and light, and whose aim is to activate the architectural space in aprofound and reflective way. Filters of gaze and light may be found in many cultures and under many guises, but they are always designed for a whole array of functions and made to measure for each region andfor each person. The review of architectural filters presupposes theexperience of the deep spatial emotion that they determine, theascertainment and registering of the aforementioned invariants. Theproposal of the author is to rediscover and deepen on these ideas offiltering, porosity and osmosis. The text wants to be an invitation to reintegrate them from timeless architecture into theory and practiceof current architecture, as an analytical tool and a creativemechanism inherent to the architectural design.