Villa Nurbs, Empuriabrava. Detailed to the point of almost being Baroque, this house is a composite collage of design ideas, facade systems and manufacturing processes. A built catalogue of architectural possibilities.
Edwin Gardner and I spoke to Enric in a nice leafy courtyard in historic Delft – a world away from the radical images shown in the lecture moments earlier. I started by asking him whether there is any distinction between what he can dream up and what he can build, or, are you effectively building student projects?
Enric Ruiz-Geli: Yeah for sure. I think we are coming from an educational period of the industrial age where things have to be categorised in order to be understood. We come from a Darwinian perspective. Now, it’s about particles, there is no body and outside the body, there is only particles. The body is made of particles, the weather is made of particles, the earth is made of particles, and these particles are running us. It’s one system. A continuous liquid system. Therefore what kind of role, what kind of added value can we offer to this system? What kind of positive attitude can we bring to this new realisation of particles? In this age of knowledge, it’s all linked, and we have to pay attention to this. There is no global warming, economic crisis and financial meltdown. It’s all one. And an economist will tell you that. Petrol is linked to energy and therefore to war, to the stock market, to our lives, to our culture, to everything. Share
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