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I feel that, through this book, I can document one of the many ways of being an architect. For me, and certainly for many others, pure professional practice has never been seen as separate from life, in a constant attempt to position myself within the vicissitudes of the century, as a citizen and as a teacher – with the contradictions and incompleteness that this ongoing and heterodox decentralization inevitably brings, centered on a kind of invisible structural fidelity.
Fidelity has never asked me for science, aesthetics, or theory. It has asked for the wholeness of being, a deeper consciousness than intelligence, a truth purer than the one I can control. It has been the coexistence with things, the participation in the real, the encounter with voices or images. And I’m not talking about an ideal life, but rather a concrete life, the resonance of streets, cities, the shadow of walls, the breath of the night.
That’s why I will speak of specific times.