I am marcela gonzález and I am
architect, although I have not been for more
being and many times I fall a lot
better when I’m not an architect, I’m in
Bakala and it ‘s night
I have a mezcal in my hand and I’m
listening to frank sinatra in my
hearing aids I realize that the night
it is clear and it has a pit and it always had
this obsession with the stars begins
to approach towards the lagoon and started
walk on a pier at that time
my whole body gets a lot more alert
where I am from, I realize that there is no
a single light then the stars will
see much more intense
there is no wind and the water of the
lagoon is completely still
it works like a mirror
3 is a moment of madness where
start to see stars up stars
down and always had this obsession
by the sky and by ball that what to
Sometimes I put the one on the dock and start
play with my leg to postpone it
on top of the stars that are
reflecting in that moment I turned what
I said it can not be I can not feel
happier
I tell you this because if we do the
exercise that they think of some
moment in which they have felt super
happy
surely something to reach your mind
no and the first thing that will happen
bani related to some person can
be that time when your grandfather
He pulled into the garden and they went to see the
constellations and started talking about
something about it then in that moment in
the one that your niece was born and present to
this act of life together with all its
family and had the skin chinita by
to be watching that moment can be that
day you catch tetuán boat and you
You went to the lake and shared it with your
friends and suddenly it seems sunset that
He made everyone feel in harmony
and without
although they were together and enjoying it
however if I tell them to see do the
exercise to think a little more as in
the place
little by little they will remember posey and
surely to this sale the boat or was
such a hospital or was in the house of the
grandmother and I ask you to go a little
beyond what material was close to
my best social starts to cost
effort and it costs us effort why
because it’s really the least
important
I grew a lot and tied to nature
love the saw and have if you are
images of my grandmother in every in the
garden caring for your plants and caring
the fruit trees
it’s something that has been completely
present in my life
at the beginning of the week just with this
restlessness of I need to be near the
nature and do some exercise
we went to walk towards the hill
pacifier this after a lot of
adventures that only now is not
important coming to the top he turned and
if I turned south side
in this image of the mother saw that
spectacular where this series lived
of layers that are trying the
hills and it degrades in blues and
there could be birds
it was a crazy 100 changes and flips
to the north side I had this image of the
city where to begin with they kiss
it’s horrible to avoid the
pollution everywhere and
we started to see this stain that did not
just buildings and we pay attention
could see the traffic the chaos and there
come in michaux because like any
I have doubts and I sat in the
stone I said it can not be that always
been much more linked to the natural and
definitely what attracts me the most is
flip this side and yet my
profession is completely linked to
what is on this other side is
begin the doubts that it would be
doing things right I’m working
for something that is that what I do not like and
is done is a little exercise of when
you remember that street where you
you feel uncomfortable or think about that
building that this horror how is and
realize that all of that started as a
mental image
someone came up with it came out of a
human thought and it ‘s basically what
what I do is when I realize
this is marcel you have to have good
clear what are your struggles and my
fights no doubt have to do with
take care of nature have to do with
memory have to do with the city
but above all they have to do with the
people and with encounters suddenly
comes this time that falls
project is not spectacular terrain
full of trees in the middle of the
mountain because marsé the heart of the
restless and curious girl goes crazy
what are we going to do here
to begin with is to respect it I know that
I want to touch one of those trees
however, it reaches the client and
start saying but I need so much
bedrooms and I need a garage to
so many cars and I need a room and
visited a dining room and a short team in
game if you need need I need
pajama interact all these factors
that at the end of the day they are good
important is that I start doing
begins to understand what it is that
needs but at the same time I do see the
value that your land has before
my job is to start falling in love with it
that has to make him understand that no
we have to occupy such land to leave
that the water continues to drain through here
that the earth does not absorb eyebrow that sees
the value that tree has and the
shadow that will generate it in its place
as if we keep them going to continue
this little sound that is the basis of the
animals that are living there and
rise generating the atmosphere of your
place and as time goes by it
does an accomplice nor the client and
start to understand how architecture
it has to be more a background that figures and
who starts being the protagonist is
completely nature
that place the activities that go
happening are happening around
this and it becomes much more interesting
be in a dining room eating between
treetops that have no idea
where am I, the place is
answering and I’m answering
those people is this that stands
what we are working on happens
to intersperse with the place and it becomes
much richer they start to
generate these places
in fact the hand out there like these in
where if I understand what I have
close and then you get inside the
space becomes very rich
if at the time of arriving at the now I discover
that having filtered the attengo level
and discovered a view that was not there
have terror tell someone I’m waiting for you
me five minutes were the five
minutes but let’s work in a way
that we are going to put that mountain that does not
we had seen inside your room it would be
a mistake to ignore that we have it next
and yet to be in your room watching
every day and maybe being
there some day a client will arrive
from another friend do I was going to see the
atmosphere that place was going to understand and
well it feels very different because
are all the trees and I give myself
mind that I am in the mountains and such
time that can make the difference when
he is facing another support project
I want something similar and make a participant
your own client and make a participant
the people who are building what
are you doing makes them understand by
what is important that those
trees because it is important that you
take care of that land and everyone goes on being
accomplices while they are straining others
they are watering and caring for the trees and
at the end of accounts also they
when another one arrives now they will have a
little more of awareness of what is
happening and maybe not
maybe it will happen like this picture
where after a battle
we got to see the neighbor’s land and
he did not care about a peanut that was a
ítalo forest the 37 trees that are
that ‘s when you say it can not be no
we may not understand that no
we have to get to impose our
needs about what exists as such
can add and suddenly this appears
work where you arrive and we have a
house in the center of the city that yes
can return it represents you the
abandonment
for many the indifference that many
Sometimes the institutions that would
protect them completely ignore them and
the fight with the client of
teach him
the honor of having something that did have
ideas and the time is also put
because he’s been there for years
the corner is answering in the
front garden has concerns
with the heights that there are the sides there
a base that connects a
sidewalk that the best is inefficient
but what is used every day is yes
you begin to teach him that if working
the space you can start to take away
this disease of abandonment of forgetfulness
which has the structure and these spaces
that you saw as full of rubble
of garbage from forgetting graf and while
days the value of there is a stone of
hamel dug there is light enters light of the
wood and there are these beams that have
hundreds of years over and that are
beautiful and that maybe your client does not
he will understand it but if you are
convinced that that memory has to
follow and that what you do has to
come and hug him and complement and of
that way all ume
everything will be much more attractive and
well this process where we started to
work with what there is and magically
heals and starts the client appreciate
good is this that I was like trash
It becomes a jewel and little by little
begins the dialogue between what is
new with what already existed and everything
it gets much richer it becomes a lot
more interesting and if later you
you convince the client to see which
they are the most basic elements
we have the sun that comes out all the
days and it’s free
put it inside your space and you ‘re going to
have a rhythm of light a shadow rhythm
your space to change during the day
we are inviting what already exists what
that is there the two of you getting inside
of the projects and maybe the
church and the method between the project and
that square that was there then the
invited and some terrace so that when
I am outside I can greet the neighbor
and the bus and not to greet me starts me
to create this sense of community
yes he was a student more and maybe
after a client arrives that
place and have a board when I go back to
go out and bolt and from these big houses
so full to the center of abandoned houses
start to see not like this question that
it bothers us you can see other
possibilities is not a matter of
forgetfulness and yet in front of each
project like being creative
when I face myself I have to have this
that I was instilled from the school of
order structure shape the aesthetic
that has to be basic and if it’s a
part but it ‘s the most important part
for me the most important thing has a lot
more to do with encounters with the
people said before a customer arrives and I
he said to and opposed that there be a
counts bedrooms and with total and with
how many offices and how many bathroom
you need completely changed that
chip to get there and ask him there and that
you like to eat that gives me an idea of
well I like hamburgers and I
I like beer and I know it ‘s something
uncomfortable that they do not need a dining room and
performances and we have to do the ends
of week and how is a weekday
and my hands start to fill with these
annotations of the place where
They talk the place where the rest
where they are and is
completely different start
understand architecture in a way
as a living element where the form
in what later happens to complement
just like when you see a stage and
this one alone to this one the instruments
is the lighting behind there is no
nothing more but as soon as the artist comes out
all the energy of the place change the
atmosphere transforms the skin chinita
all it gives is a collective energy
and that’s because someone to own that
place and changed it
the same thing happens with architecture the
architecture could be object
and could be merely this issue
the ‘best artistic but stays in
that until the moment someone
travel until the moment someone
the live and the form make it part of their
more experience
then we have to understand that the
spaces are completed
when people know
own when they are filled with these objects
when they are full of life and it is the
search that I have inside of although
I already have very clear what are my
many but often blind me this
question of whether I have to do another
project and I have to be creative my
way to make like these certain
pauses and reconnect with what
is more essential with what is the
common sense
then through my travels I love
travel and I do it because at that time
my alter ego is activated not the architect
she appears
and it is curious that concerned that
the one that observes because at the end of
accounts I think what we have to
do is all be able to observe
because watching is learned and learned
it’s nothing more than to imitate if we start
to see how in other cultures like
eat how they pray how they communicate and
how that can help what you’re
doing becomes much richer
if you can return an image if we
we focus on seeing the architecture of
the non-architects as is is the most
obvious I’m in a place that I
very many I have sloping roofs that
are in a place that is flooded past
base of stone and I climb if
I have trees to improve because that’s what
that he used to build death me
connects with this question of meaning
common that many times are clouded in the
question of having to be
creative and makes me want to be from some
way to create spaces that have
a more neutral way and suddenly not
you are with this rhythm
you usually do things that your client is
happy and as a consequence and other
people who are becoming interested in what
that you made flames is an evaluation
internal and calathes are
delivering a client to a family
live it but there are other people
they say said he is doing
she is working her
materials and something happens that
if you get stuck you start to enter the
likes war the pressure of having
that win such competitions I have to go out
in the magazine and I have and if you
you start focusing on I have to meet
with all this and rags from as of
that see if you evaluate
I’m doing things well and giving
mind that does not go around you have to
stand in the middle and understand why
I’m doing the things I’m following
my struggles benefiting someone else and
if the then you are good to let yourself go
by this stream of I want to be successful
it’s not the way if you do things
responding to what is truly
important to solve problems to
solve needs what else is going to
come alone and when I was trying to
see what I wanted to share
I tried to think about when
had been super concentrated on
know that it was important to me as
architect and it was just a few ago
years that I wanted to apply for a scholarship
this one so I can go abroad that
for health reasons
can not even kill me application
but he wrote a letter through a
letter reason and I want to share what
what I wrote that day
this is an image of my first project
I went like this I’m sitting right in the
hallway that connects all spaces
it’s hot but the shadow covers me
hit to my right and I can see the
mountains always present and the row of
trees that accompany the stream and
I can feel the air that crosses a
side by side the building and think of
that day they started moving the
land and the day when the
beams
then the bricks the rods were
materials heaps and lots of
materials that are now here below
from me to the back side up and
form this place
suddenly the footsteps of some children I
they return to the present
I hear them approaching down the hall they go
leaving some kind of children
they continue on their way
others leave their things on the floor and
they start to run down the court two
girls sit down to talk recharged
in the columns some more are following
the rhythm to the structure jumping from
a shadow another without stepping on the places in
where they enter in the process there was
moments of doubt
we will not have done well was what
I needed the place
children like to spend much
of his days here and now I
it reassures to see the building
of children has other smells other
colors other sounds have completed
for me fire started to realize that
what I wrote six years ago has
what to do with what I ‘m still fighting right now
I keep thinking about the nature I still
thinking about how the wind crosses
how light comes in how at the end of
accounts the building ends up charging
life when it is invaded then and of
suddenly we get carried away by this
question of who work and work and
I have to make money and we go
coming by this I think it’s fine
important to pause memory
and turn around to see my motives continue
being the reasons that had those
fights are valid
it motivated me to include mine more I’m
being able to change my city I am
being able to respect nature
I’m giving something else to someone who
you need it
if suddenly this answer does not the
solve and say well in front of me
quiet I’m doing well and that
is what will give me the strength to follow
following as he talks with a very
good friend
as much as we like the dirt of
he suddenly turns around and will have the envy of
kiss to roads and the highway is
move people in their convertibles and
the hair is flying movie
I go here between the logo and the brush
but I ‘m here because I have a
destiny and have a cause and I am
going well between the mud and the brush
I’m having a good time that if I continue
focused on what motivated me is to understand
that the architecture has to be this
element that day after day fades
so that the most important thing comes to life
what is it that is what
most common that is to live
I believe that I already achieved it and I hope that
you find your reason
Thank you
[Applause]
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