Arquitectura de las pequeñas cosas

No one suspected that the least extraordinary of architectures, that of the house, our home, would change its meaning so much in a short time. If traditionally this box loaded with mortgages and rooms has constituted the most immediate habitat of the human being and its daily starting point, the vertiginous changes to which it has been subjected since recent times endow it with new and profound existential dimensions. "What can the house and its rooms teach us?" Before each tremor in the world, before each meager social movement, the house allows us to listen to the rumor of time like a real seismograph. As a "great deposit" where the technical or cultural remains of each era end up abandoned, the house still fulfills its duty. When the house fights to be the center from which to rebuild intimacy and daily life, any virulent cataclysm reveals that its capacity as a refuge, although forgotten, remains intact. This is how our identity as subjects resides in the everyday house.