In the past, architects knew what to expect after finishing their degree. In reality, nobody considered other alternatives than what seemed to be a small bunch of unambiguous possibilities, typical and predictable channels of professional development.
Nowadays, it’s clear that the situation has mutated. Things are different, there are multiple channels, and even the ways we practise them are being reinvented. (For example, the article in El País whose link we have provided at the end: Arquitectos tenderos y ¡a mucha honra!)
Today, more and more, the way we watch television has been reinvented. We download series, their viewing is deconstructed and the impact on the viewers is reconstructed. Monolithic ideas are viewed in a fractured way and then are constructed again in a new, equally valid reality.
The psychotherapist in the series In Treatment (a story based on the successful Israeli series of the same name), Paul, reconstructs the ideas of his patients from Monday to Thursday, a new reality for his narrators, leaving Friday for he himself to go to therapy with his colleague and friend of many years, Gina. During the sessions we learn about the various characters and the conflicts they confront.
The actors that participate in the first season of In Treatment – METALOCUS, are young architects looking for their own identity from Monday to Friday.
When I invited Marina, to participate in this new METALOCUS project and when we first discussed the idea about a reconstruction of an architectural In Treatment, I remembered how METALOCUS was born of the same interests twelve years ago:
the need to explain reality in a different way than we were seeing it being narrated, knowing full well that that interpretation was a common cause among the architects of that generation.
IN TREATMENT – METALOCUS will be the sofa where a series of architects will talk about reality kaleidoscopically, their reality. Using Yi Fu Tuan’s definition of place, they will build a place for contemporary architecture relating what they think about this reality, in this reality and with this reality. What links all the guests together is that they are architects far from the city where they studied, and the majority are even far from the country where they thought they would be professionally based.
Faraway from their city, from a reality that doesn’t exist, building a reality around a void.
In 6 months you, the daily readers, already total 1700 (real readers, Google is in charge of the count) and to celebrate we have made a great effort to offer you this series of articles, IN TREATMENT - METALOCUS. Thank you to the participants and thank you especially to the readers. Enjoy!
The architects of the first season:
CARLOS GERHARD PI-SUÑER
FERNANDO RIAL PONCE
LARA FERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ
MARINA DIEZ-CASCÓN
MONTSE PLA-GARCÍA CASTANY
SERGIO DIEZ-CASCÓN SOLER
VERÓNICA ROSERO
XAVIER NICOLAU CUYÀS
