Why not restoration?
ARCHITECTURE? ¿ or…. a replay ?!?
Why not RESTORATION? ¿
Have you ever paid attention in architecture of your country? Recently I’ve visited the Pyrenees area in Catalonia and I’ve felt a great sadness. I find a lot of houses and buildings which are all equals. It’s horrible.However I found a lot of cottages in ruins….why? There are a lot of houses that not are simple buildings. In a house we can find a lot of history witch allow us to read a lot of feelings. Each stone has its own history.The new way of building is forgetting that architecture is art too and only thinks in money. The people don’t know that they are broking the history of things. Important items that we have to value are the materials which shape walls or roofs. In old buildings, we can observe materials which have been found around the area, stone, wood and whitewash. These buildings’ materials were according with the countryside, according with the colours, according with the weather… . However, now, we can find horrible houses which replays “city style“ in a landscape of mountain. In my visit I could see lovely mansions in ruins. I cannot understand why any person doesn’t give an opportunity to these old stones. In my opinion, we have to pay more attention in this fact. We cannot forget our history, because we are going to arrive a moment that we will able to difference if we are in a mountain area o near the sea.
