Cuaderno rojo
Authors
Ricardo Alario López, Juanjo López de la Cruz and Ángel Martínez García-Posada
Collaborators
Jaime Sierra Saucedo and Jesús Suárez Caparros
Cover Design
Sara González García
Publisher
Universidad de Sevilla
ISBN
J978-84-608-1013-1
Year
2010
Pages
333
Link to publisher
Cuaderno Rojo
The notebook of every architect fills with notes that sometimes relate to the central theme of its pages, and other times contain references whose presence only the author could explain. The notebook of the architecture student is also a sort of stage for convergences, much like their own desk. The act of designing has something to do with projecting the person onto reality; learning and teaching about projects and places involves constructing a personal way of seeing—of reading and projecting—the world. The architect’s open sensitivity continuously draws associations and plans encounters, so their work desk becomes a disordered stage where ongoing projects coexist with a collection of notebooks and sketchbooks that condense what happens on it, the most recent books read, and those still pending. The student’s desk holds notes from various subjects—instrumental, formative, or creative; in this experiential proximity, relationships and encounters begin to emerge.
The method followed by the student learning to design is the same as the one used in any project: starting from arguments, giving shape to ideas, traveling, reading, drawing, annotating in the margins. It’s not about discovering anything new but about knowing better. In the subject of Design, as in any project, above all, we find a situation of learning, understanding, and grasping some aspect of reality. Then, invention takes on its original meaning from the Latin invenire—to discover, to find, to ascertain. In the random relationship of proximity between the different pages of our heterogeneous notebooks, interesting correspondences and associations can emerge. The architect, immersed in a changing world, tries to learn from everything around them, like someone unwrapping a place, and their architectural ideas become contaminated by those from core subjects and electives, just as other artistic, literary, cinematic, or emotional disciplines influence how they approach a task.
