LIVING OBJECTS, SOCIAL LANDSCAPES.
Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón
Looking back – hardly out of the corner of the eye, as the future is awaiting – it is interesting to observe how the concept of context, the idea of landscape, and the social environment, which is so important to us, have evolved in the work of the office of Mansilla + Tuñon, growing, unfolding, exceeding its limits and approaching life. From the onset of our work, the will to state the concepts of equality and diversity within the realm of architecture, has deployed itself over different landscapes. Already back in the nineties we produced a handful of projects characterized by a vision of the project’s context as avoiding familiar forms and seeking to establish ties with the character of things or unfolding actions. Our aim then was to explore what was behind things, assuming that it was ideas, not form, that could be shared by both place and project, or in other words, by past and future. A few years later, our obsessions turned from repetition and chance to the creation of systems that respond to local behavioral patterns, which we then called “expressive systems.” Such expressive systems meant a more abstract, although not less material, approach to context within our work. From investigation to pragmatism, the last few projects by the office of Mansilla + Tuñón have consciously oscillated between the universal and the individual, between the social and the private, between ideas and form, between strategies and tools, between social landscapes and living objects… If only architecture could be but a mirror where each observer sees different things, sees others, or sees himself…
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