¿No hay algo aquí de Paul Rudolph? Seminario Pontificio Mayor, Santiago, Cristián Fernández Cox |
Fue profesor mío de Teoría de la Arquitectura Moderna, durante mi intercambio en Chile. En clase, cariñosamente, lo llamabamos "el Viejito". Fue una gran suerte y una gran experiencia contar con su bagaje y su visión de la arquitectura, la cual me parecía muy lógica, y que comparto totalmente. El hablaba del porqué de la particular modernidad chilena -que no era esa arquitectura racionalista que se estaba llevando a cabo en los últimos años-, situando el contexto de cómo la arquitectura moderna llegó a ese país, él hablaba en sus clases de una modernidad barroca, diferente del resto de Sudamérica. "Los arquitectos chilenos somos hijos de la modernidad barroca"
Además de todo esto, él hablaba de su concepto de buena arquitectura, ligada al lugar y a su experimentalidad. Él lo llama la bien estancia, el concepto de que un usuario pueda llegar a decir, de un lugar arquitectónico, en sus propias palabras ¡qué bien se está aquí! Os dejamos aquí el vídeo con la entrevista completa. ¡Disfrutadlo!
We bring you a quick update today, due to a lack of time again. This is about a clip of the architect Cristián Fernández Cox who granted an interview in a cultural TV programme of Chilean television (sorry but it's in Spanish and I fear the subtitles are not available). He was awarded with the National Architecture Award in 1997 and the America Architecture Award in 2011 (Rogelio Salmona, Luis Barragán and Eladio Dieste were awarded previously too, among others).
He was my teacher in Theory of Modern Architeture during my international exchange placed in Chile. We all called him, fondly, "the Oldie man". I was so lucky and enjoyed quite a lot attending his lessons, in which he transfered us his own and personal architectural vision and all his knowledge, which I totally gathered as I found it very reasonable. He talked to about how different the Chilean modernity was, regarding to others South American countries, its particular causes and the origins of it in Chile. Often, he spoke that Chilean architecture is baroque, not racionalist -as all the buildings which were being built in that country in the recent years-, a Baroque modernity. "We, Chilean architects, are sons of Baroque Modernity" he used to say.
What is more, he always mentioned his very own concept of what makes architecture good, which should be quite related with the context and about its experience with users. He calls to this the good livingness (sorry for the term, I have tried to translate it as much real as I think it may be in English ), when people who experience that architecture, can reach to say, in Fernández Cox's own words ¡This place makes me feel good! Here it's linked the video with the whole interview. Enjoy it if you can!
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