Arquitectura

Did architects and builders in other ages and other cultures share our modern attitude? Can architects and builders now discover and attitude and a way of building different from the modern attitude? Can we combine modern insights with timeless, vernacular insights?.

If we are architects, we are modern architects. We have been trained not only in the modern tradition of composition and construction and details. We have also been trained to regard our designs as modern or not, as belonging to a particular time.

recent designs reveal how difficult it is. Vernacular building, it turns out, is more than techniques and materials and forms. Vernacular building is an attitude. It is an attitude that lets us see ourselves in what we building. Without thinking about it, we recognize ourselves in spaces that make space for our body, not alone space for our concepts. They make space for our body through their measures, their scale, the composition of their boundaries.