Abstract
Explica el paso del autor por la Cátedra Blanca y su relación con su posterior trayectoria en los ámbitos de la divulgación, la academia y la profesión. It wasn’t even my third week in Barcelona when Carlos asked for a facade section at 1:10 scale of the project idea. That was a surprise. Not only in terms of changing the usual order in the development of the project, but because I came from a context in which the enemy was the mannerism already present since the 70s; in such context, starting the project by the detail seemed highly suspicious to me. I could not understand how going back to detail could make sense in a world that we already recognized as changes and flows in constant circulation. What resistance to it could “the detail” detail ? In this my last career course, my training until then based on diagrams and strategies seemed much more coherent to me, and that other thing seemed to me like a kind of self-absorption in the excessively particular, or worse, as a castling of the architects about themselves and their own ‘styling’ in the face of convulsing times. But the insistence was huge. Carlos repeated as a mantra that what interested him most in architecture were ‘the 3 centimeters’, those in which the materials are found, and he expressed this in the talks with which he presented his work, in the construction visits that we made throughout that year ...In these 20 years since that course, this need for coherence across the different scales of the processes has led a good part of my informational, academic and professional career.
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