The Art of Connecting the Dots
Two parallel stories about architectural thinking.
Degrees's Final Thesis.
EINA Zaragoza.
September 2018
This work aims to tell an own version of the conformation of the architect's creative thinking from the compilation of its fragments through two parallel stories: the construction of the Carmen de Rodríguez-Acosta in Granada and my own experience as a new student of the ETSAMadrid.
A personal cosmology and imaginary made from related parts in a complex network, from memory, experience, sensory content, actions or reflections.
architecture + writing / the art of connecting the dots
"I am not going to omit anything. This is the last chapter that remains for me to write, apart from a final corollary and some lines on the painter's Carmen. I begin to be mentally thick, with each new line that I write the enthusiastic spirit degenerates with the one I started this book, but I like to think that the very reading from beginning to end of everything that makes up this work is going to become one more proof of this value of the process. Hence, the chapters change their tone, their state This is why they are accompanied by the date and place in which I wrote them. The post-process reveals itself as a new transformation that also needs to be valued. The story changes, with each progress it discovers more relatable ideas than It will not be able to cover it, it would like to, but it does not lose its illusion by being read and commented on, because at least one essential synopsis remains and germinates.I am satisfied that the naivety of what I write is at least born from a true story. ... "
Author: Manuel García-Lechuz Sierra
Editorial revision (tuthors): Eduardo Delgado, Aurelio Vallespín
Graphic Design: Manuel García-Lechuz
Printing: Copistería Lorente, Zaragoza.