Alfredo Blandon

Architecture and design is indeed a way of life...

I will now take the liberty of quoting Farshid Moussavi; thus, her words inspire me and in many ways give words to my beliefs of what architecture is and what it is not...

"Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible as well as invisible forces. Progress in architecture occurs through new concepts by which it becomes connected with this material, and it manifests itself in new aesthetic compositions and affects. It is these new affects that allow us to constantly engage with the city in new ways."

- Farshid Moussavi (The Function of Ornament) -