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Weekend Reading: Supercritical

// may 26, 2014 // “I think we have to look differently at the discipline of architecture in relation to the world. If there is a repertoire of possible action between making changes in the world and leaving it as it is, the architect is always on the side of change. If the repertoire is between executing ideas and observing them, the architect is always on the side of execution. I don’t know how a single profession could be satisfied with using this combination of interfering, changing, executing and acting as the basis for practice, leaving abstinence, observing and reflecting by the wayside…”

-Rem Koolhaas

“Creo que tenemos que mirar de manera diferente a la disciplina de la arquitectura y su relación con el mundo. Si existe un repertorio de acciones posibles entre hacer cambios en el mundo y dejarlo como está, el arquitecto está siempre del lado del cambio. Si el repertorio se encuentra entre ejecutar ideas y la observación de ellas, el arquitecto está siempre del lado de la ejecución. No sé cómo una sola profesión podía estar satisfecha con el uso de esta combinación de interferir, cambiar, ejecutar y actuar como base para la práctica, dejando a la abstinencia, la observación y la reflexión en el camino …”

-Rem Koolhaas

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