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The straight line is for the simple man. The caves are for primitive man. The curve is for the superior man, for the neo-futurist man. When art and technology dance, we can reach the architectural peak of the moment. Architecture must boast of all the knowledge acquired so far, it must show today.   We shouldn't live in boxes. In nature there are no straight lines, it is a man-made concept. When the architect decides to use curves it is the response of the connection with the earth, the organic and fluid.   The "Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Arts Center" 2019, China, by the 2004 Prizker-winning architect Zaha Hadid, is a geographical accident in itself. It has its own internal structure. Three forms emerge on an immense esplanade of gigantic proportions. Shapes molded by a giant, with her hands she has created plastic forms closer to the soul than to the mind. Then technology plays its role, it is necessary to make these shapes possible, the work of the...

Of proportions, of scale, of the “Modulor” and of a colossus, I'll write. Goya's giant " The Colossus " 1818-1825 with that huge character in the back of a city, who adopts the style of his black paintings. It comes to my mind when I mean proportions. If you want to paint a giant, draw a flower next to it and there will be no doubts. A proportion needs a reference, a previous number. A French person of 1.75; an English person of 1.82 "I took the proportions from the solar plexus to the head and arm and found the gold section there", Le Modulor, Le Corbusier said. I like to imagine the face of the genius when he was able to enrol the right angle and do a series of Fibonacci, Eureka! Le Corbusier stays in my head and so I put a little sauce on the Swiss character. It was not only the Swiss who came across this divine number, Φ (fi). Vitruvius (80 BC- 15 BC), the Roman architect, wrote the "Ten architecture books"; texts that Leonardo Da Vinci lat...

Narcissus reflected in the river and when he reproduced his image on it, his end was inevitable. Water reflects and transmutes. In architecture it is a resource or trick that allows to exalt the beauty (if there’s any) of a building. We can refer to the use of water as matter turned into material in two ways:     - Wild stuff, uncontrollable.     - Landscape mirror, mysterious and passive. “I want you to live in the waterfall, not just look at it”, said Frank Lloyd Wright. The decision this quote refers to was risky and ingenious. The architect shows us a new way of inhabiting the space through his vision, invites us to feel, to experience the space in the way that he needs it to be understood. Organic architecture is the most noble and sensitive gesture that an architect can have to understand nature. You can probably guess that I am referring to "The Fallingwater" 1937, Pennsylvania  , U.S., built for the Kaufmann family. It is impossible to...