This book describes the initial moment of a series of buildings, beyond their origins and their physical constitution (both issues, idea and matter, however, based on his work). Here, the objects are presented, captured by Adrià Goula, as visual forms, as compositions of planes and surfaces that form volumes and also as a dialectic of the light and shade that define spaces.
· Projects listed in the book:
1. Offices in Boulogne-Billancourt. France.
2. PGGM Company Headquarters. Zeist, Netherlands.
3. Remodelling of Banc Sabadell. Barcelona, Spain.
4. Reconstruction of an old coutry mansion. Garrotxa, Gerona, Spain.
5. Film Theatre of Catalonia. Barcelona, Spain.
· Excerpts of "ON BUILGING, Matter and Form.":
On Building is an action that moves towards the future. It involves imagining another reality, another world, different to this one. The project requires data about existing conditions. (...) Yet the project distorts this data (and must do so). (...)
Building is a long journey through the present continuous. The past exists as an echo, as a phantasmal form that is no longer discussed, and sometimes even its origin is forgotten.(...)
Finally, the building appears. Despite the slowness of construction, suddenly, the building is there. (...) And so we see it: whole, new, young, brilliant. Very soon, we will leave it. (...)
The idea, however, is to convey the initial, fresh force of the objects when they appear. Witnessing these brief moments is, in part, what motivates our work.
