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Can you imagine life without glass? From the glass you drink from to the screen where you are reading these letters, all is glass. It is a material with many uses and is very practical. In the beginning it was not like that, they say that it was discovered by chance (like almost everything) in ancient Egypt and its use was exclusively for jewellery and to protect ointments. Later the Syrians found a better way of manufacturing. The technique was to blow the glass through a very long tube to shape this at very high temperatures. Can you believe they still use this method? In architecture, glass began to be used with the Romans in 100 BC. They added manganese dioxide and thus were able to remove the green colour of the glass (in Latin vitreum or vitrum, it means "green colour" ... it makes more sense in Spanish) in addition to using a new technique to make them flat. Glass is perfect as a material, well, almost perfect. It is hard, resistant, light and transparent, it ha...

Whimsical, unpredictable, changeable, beautiful, magical, mysterious … complex light can be. Countless academic articles referring to light can be found, magnificent architectural treatises on this subject. I will give you my humble opinion about the topic. Light in architecture has life and creates forms, environments, perceptions.   Light is a material. We must take into account the geographical position. For example, in Cuba we try to isolate ourselves from the sun and sun protection must be more powerful than in Ireland where we open to the south with large windows with little solar control. In any case, we like to have visuals and natural light. The interaction of light with different materials is important: how the simple fact of a “coarse” curtain can change the interior atmosphere, how that light at three on a summer day can be dyed through a golden organza cloth and generate more warmth. Light, as well as the passage of time in general, endows the buildi...