05

I’ve been thinking of those empty buildings spread through the territory.

I usually find them laying on the side of a road when getting away from the city but I can also find them as part of the grid.

They’ve been abandoned, neglected, refused, forgotten. Completely wasted.

Should I stop thinking of them as architecture?

When I perceive any space I make my interpretation — collectiveness and unconsciousness are both included in what I consider my. Through this interpretation I’m able to experience architecture and thanks to this experience I can feel feelings. Architecture stay alive in my memory due to the experience-feeling binomial. As with everything in life, I do have a relationship with architecture.

Empty buildings are plunged into solitude. There is no spectator. No intimator. Neither perception nor interpretation. No experience. No life. No feelings. No memory.

Should I stop thinking of them as architecture?

I should.

This insight gives me as an architect a truly sense of responsibility when I find by chance these ruins. This insight broadens my passion and nurtures it with intuitions of how I can practice architecture.

Maybe having a conversation with two people at war to set free a heritage?

Because when I see these empty buildings I decide not to see already made architecture.

That is quite releasing for me.