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Art begins with not with the flesh, but with the house .

That is why architecture is the first of the arts Deleuze and Gutarri, 1994 The wolf is running fast through the woods. It is night. The darkness is slightly illuminated by a white reflecting layer of snow. He prezzes the cold air through his nose, in and out, formig little clouds of steam.. The solid ground provides the base to move. His feets are tipping over the ground and his cordination is as good that he can follow his mates in there footprints. The wolf is aware of that quality. The cold frozen snow in winter forces him to move different. He reaches a river. He smells the water, tastes it - and without having a concept of water,////ATOM//// the different states, the formation of the clouds, its abnormailty and that it is formed of two elemts tha are gases, he understands its qualities. He is in his pure intesity is able to be affected by that expressions of water. The enviroment expresses its capacities to affect us and to be affected by us. Expressions that affect deeply our reality, in a multilayered way. A dialog of formation, a dialog between the solid and the soft, of the flesh and the material. This quality of expression of capacities we also find in architecture. That seperates architecture profoundly from other culturtechnics. We are part in the esthetic architectual reality of a building or a puplic space. We are part with with our body inside the spatial configuration which we expirience./////PALLADIO///// Since the late 60 , this sort of dialog also starts taking place in contemporary artforms. Pieces of art that suspend the estetic relation of subject and object. Aesthetic of the performative. ///////////////MISSING LINK///////////////// Fact is that more than 90 % of the build enviroment are made without a design professionel and in 50 years time two thirds of humanity will live in cities.////ELMUNDO///////// We need architecture to design our world for the development of our lifeprocesses. We have to manipulate reality. Respond to global enviromental issues. ////GAFAS 3D////// Beyoned the global discurs with missounderstood terms like landscape//SHOP///, infrastructure//NUDO/// or ecology//MOLINAS////, there is a true interest in architecture as an operative discurs. There is a new economic value of the cultural in the urban context. The economic sucess and economic value of a product is supported by its cultural aura that sourrounds it. The new corporation likes to be assosiated with culture values and not just as the soulless production company. The image is as honorable as the practical value of the product.// MAC // You dont buy the product, you also buy the lifestyle philosophy too that is associated with the product and the company. ////MAC advertisment// If you understand a city as ///BCN,Vicky christina/// NEW YORK HEART// trademark, a lifestyle product with specific icons. A cultural formed and formable and designable product. Architecture is the very discepline that treats the articulations of space in every dimension. It provides the technics to connect the specific culture of a specific city in a process of formation of differences and lifestyles. A regional region that separtes it from the global stream of the alltoosame. a mixed culturel mileu that is the base for economic sucess, the chance to overcome the statik, nonprogressiv fixed identity with a carefully designed enviroment. The developz of a urban trademark of complex images. But in comperison the image of a city is much more valuable as the lifetime of houshold gadet or a fancy sneaker. A city is much more importend, also much more difficult to dekonstruct and understand. The differnt layers that forms a living city. Equalities never formed a city. And architecture is the medium to design our cities and it provides a vocabulary and articulaytions to deal with all this cultural demands. We are living in a time of ubiquitousness, of stringing things together, the far and the close, the coexistence and the dispersed as Focault it discribed. Philosophers define time as a orden of sequels and space as synchrony. This is what makes cities so interessting. You can read them as like a book where history , past and future exist on the same time. Space provides much more than to organize our daily life and to store objects. Its philosophical definition is not new . Leibnitz already discribed space as teh possible orden of things , which exist at the same time, where you can see them exist together , without questening there specific nature and manner of existence. So there is nothing new about the conceptual thinking of space. What is new is that we can see our present adequatley reflekted in the catagorie space. The 21th century replaces the concept of sequenteal orden of time with the concept of space. A principle classification of synchrony and superposition. This is a chance for architecture to provide the medium space it expression. In a era of space , architecture is essential.

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