well first after the talk of
Caesar that I loved and charm in addition
particularly all the talk but
particularly the principle when
refers to that experience with his father
when he throws the VAT this is for
get rid of the Smurfs I thought
very nice and what is interesting is
that I just
I start this talk by referring to what
same to my experience of when I fulfilled
thirty years is pretty much double
of the age of sessa and and just 30 ago
years I had this experience of
receive from my father a very advice
important always close to a friend
old
that was the advice in my peace I did not have
30 years at that time
the truth is that the advice he gave me
this gentleman seemed somewhat
premature or not too important
finally I already had my old friend
and this gentleman
this gentleman who also had me
taught a lot of things
besides being my friend and the first
thing that my father taught me was to
draw a skill that has
accompanied all my life and that has
most useful result not only for
express my ideas as an architect with
a pretty elementary technology
because a backpack and a pen are enough
source
and it’s still an instrument
fantastic for me particularly me
work but it is also a tool
wonderful to explore the space
to do site analysis when it
try to understand a natural context or
an urban context and also for
explore constructive systems for
explore how structures work
that if the structures that are the
skeleton of the buildings
the skeletons the buildings simply
they could not work they could not
exist and drawing is like me
explored all those things
space and space is not only the
contained space but also the
urban space the outer space is a
sketch that I made precisely for the
first presentation of our idea of
regeneration of the reform walk
that later would become one of
the most important projects of the
city of mexico
so I always go on a trip
The first thing that has made the suitcase is a
love king my fountain pen and so I go out to
explore the world that was another of the
things
another of my father’s teachings to
travel
my father was a tireless traveler and
He also had a very
particular that not everyone has
which is when you know how to stop in a
travel in one and pause and together
with him I made many trips and many
pauses to draw all kinds of
spaces
The Alhambra of Granada
make this passage to explore the
city of ronda
finally together we visited many places and
we draw many things together
he was always much better cartoonist
that I but the truth is that one
You have to make do with what touches
not all this experience of drawing
some reason in this campaign too
it took me to the experience of capturing
family moments
this is a sketch that my wife made
Nora Andre son at a table in London
in a small restaurant where we
we stopped to pause on a trip
then this one this instrument
It has always worked for me and it has been
incredibly useful
the other important teaching of my
father
It happens in this space, home and year
it was a mix between library room
music
another of my father’s passions and
workshop because also in the other
Extreme had a workshop with all kinds
of tools
this was another of my teachings
father who had an impact
very important in my training because
As a child, what I did as Caesar is
go to explore how the
everything he did with the team
my father’s tools and with all the
machines that were in this workshop that
it’s the same as it is because it was
part of my heritage because every time
I have a chance I’m going to do things
like my father did with his
prodigy hands
things that transformed all kinds of
materials in on useful things like us
happens to all my old friend went before
of what I would have liked
and then I had to get other
and it was precisely the way in which
I clearly understood the advice that
I had given my father
many years before always in close to a
old friend was carlos mijares many of
you must locate it Carlos had
been my teacher at the school of
architecture of the Ibero-American network and
I had spent lovely moments
bluish
then I worked in his workshop
Chalán and it was also an experience
super enriching
after asking for the pisa I founded my
own office and I lost contact with
Carlos until he looked for me in the
faculty of architecture of the unam 110
I already had practically a decade
working as a faculty teacher
ay I met with Carlos who
invited to found a new workshop
architecture in the faculty a workshop
experimental
can someone give me a little water
the the experimental workshop that
We founded Carlos and I together with others
friends passed during
practically a decade a little more
of a decade in which together we had
this wonderful fantastic experience
to teach by learning
and learn by teaching that it’s maybe
even more important
together we share moments really
exciting in this in this task of
transmit knowledge and receive
knowledge of our students and
together we also go out to do many
trips to where I have to direct
this exactly made this
little column towards this thing and together
we go out to make trips to make visits of
site with our students to
sensitize them to a series of things
that are taught in the schools of
architecture or we intend to teach in
the architecture schools but Carlos
he was passionate about the ruins
then in a similar way as how
I did with my father
we went to draw ruins Carlos and I
we went to a lot of places
analyze ruins Carlos said that the
ruins when they deteriorate when
they receive the passage of time they shed
of everything they have left to acquire
new values to find really
its essence and become new
places be idea that had car about
the ruins aroused in me an interest
particular not only for the ruins
prehispanic for example but for everything
type of ruins mark flees for example
have a very interesting idea about the
ruins that says that when we visit
ruins more than making a trip through
of history what we really do
is to travel through time is one and
it’s an idea that I love too
and exploring the built space
I was getting closer and closer to the idea
to take these old buildings in the
cities to transform them into another
thing
Learn to read and listen to these
buildings in ruins
somehow I had the
opportunity throughout my career
be called to develop projects of
rescue
precisely from these old friends who
they are the historic buildings
heritage buildings in the cities
and one of my most experiences
Interesting
20 years ago it was that of having been
invited to develop the project of the
joseph luis caves museum in the city of
mexico that sits on what was
the old convent of santa inés a
incredibly fantastic building
deteriorated when we found that
he had been a victim not only of time
but invasions and a series of
interventions made wrong etcetera but
it was still a building
incredibly attractive and with some
fantastic proportions a patio
Huge over a thousand square meters
incredibly suggestive for
become something else
just in what we did
was to transform it into a modern museum of
contemporary art that is what it is today
the intervention
important was to make this great
Cover of more than one thousand square meters
without intermediate supports that covers this
huge central courtyard and makes it
a multifunctional place the other part the
intervention was of course the one of
transform the rooms in these
spaces ready to receive everything
kind of art exhibits with a
intervention that started from the idea of
that all the elements of museography
appear as suspended in the
space and that the building even
talking about his age through the
areas that are not covered by this
almost and scenographic intervention
but from the outside every time one
goes from one room to another
enjoy this contact with the
outside but in a large space has
covered a space that in addition to
receive all kinds of art pieces
sculptures and so on is he is the house
in the famous giantess of josé luis
caves that is a a lady that is
it totally takes over the space but
around it enables a space
multifaceted for other types of events
practically all year round there are rows of
girls who want to set aside the place for
your wedding for example something that never
we imagined that it would happen
and that is precisely one of the great
lessons of these old buildings
Mezcal is terrific and
I recommend this space
wonderful we opened all the
possibilities that we could have
imagined and more than what can be done
with these buildings
I recently received the invitation
to intervene with no to a new
routine nothing less than the famous
plaza de gallos in the city of león a
set of two contiguous buildings that
they communicate through a small
tunnel
this is the facade that faces the street of
Juarez is and that gives access to space
to later enter this patio very
singular very heterogeneous but
incredibly damaged when
we found the passage of time was
as very evidenced
but he had also lost
practically 40 percent of your
mass built so here the
intervention had to be as much
most important to transform it into your
new use that is going to be that of a center
of training for the arts
scenic
the building communicates through a
small tunnel with the other building of the
set that is what gives name to
this famous space in lion is the square
of roosters a square plant
practically from the 18th century there was
formed part of a large rohe
surely from a very large store
as it usually happens practically all
our cities that has this past
colonial and that after
19 has this industrial vocation the
plaza de gallos presents these fabulous
arcs that cover a clearing of more than 20
meters without supports of course
intermediates and that presented this
interesting bleachers that you
did in the 19th century that is a
great intervention because it turned
a large warehouse in a space for
shows this this wonderful
bleachers that has been practically
a century used of the most diverse
shapes
it was thanks to an intervention that
transformed from one thing to another not and there
is where this reading of how
these old buildings can go
turning into different things at
long of time the square of roosters will
they presented at the time all kinds of
spectacles
certainly since cockfighting is what
which gives his current name to fight
free
there they presented the saint blue demon
and all these famous fighters
Mexicans and maybe one of the most
important is that it came to present itself
to sing there no less than the
Mexican nightingale in this vocation
artistic presentation of
Ángela Peralta in the room speaks to us
of its tradition as a site of
shows of all ranges and that
was precisely what leads us to
design this intervention that
evidence of the passage of time in the
restitution space amidships
loss is designed as a scaffolding
underlining its ephemeral nature but
returning functionality to
building to the set given that also
has is covered with laminated beams
and the wooden sheets and a cover
of Cristal
the other side in the in the enclosure of
arena
the proposal is to design a light
wooden deck that perches on top of
the arcs and that endows the space not only
of protection from the elements but
also of new qualities
so in this with this one with this let’s say
Repertoire menu of different
architecture interventions
totally contemporary living together
with the ruin
we managed to transform the old square
roosters in a super modern theater with
all the comforts and
characteristics of a new theater for
the city of lion
here to run the videos that
I have to do to explain that there
in these last two videos and already
ended because extended flame more what
that he presented is a bit of a vision of
a journey in third dimension that
It gives them a little idea of how it’s going to
stay the square
cock once we finish
fact that they are seeing already
Tendered and is about to put on
march the work
one of the important things this
elevator that you are going to have to comply with
the double function of making the
second floor for people of the
seniors and for people in a chair
wheels but also for
big enough to climb
Musical instruments and heavy furniture
to the second floor the spaces that
win are particularly what all the
rooms that are going to meet the
function of classrooms for the new school
of performing arts
but also on the ground floor you earn
this patio so so peculiar and so
interesting that it will work as great
school lobby but at the same
time how it fails
the new theater venue apart
through a small tunnel you will reach
the circle where we have this
mobile seating that can be installed
to increase the capacity of the theater
to have this vision of the theater
Italian and this new fixed bleachers
that with a new and shop he returns
more functional the stand in the part
from above this skeleton is appreciated
of steel that reinforces the structure of
those of the sarkozy receives this new
wooden deck with qualities
acoustic that rounds the intervention
contemporary
a scenic box behind him
proceeded with cutting-edge technology that
makes it end, let’s say
consolidate this transformation of a
ruin in a modern theater for the
city of lion
I want to end my perversion with a
phrase that I think summarizes my position
respect to build on the built
in the cities
if we really want to rewrite
reinvent our cities there is no
better way to start by building
its modernity on its own ruins
thank you very much
[Applause]
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