Talk:Julio Vilamajó

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These quotations need a better translation; they are very rough in English. Also, a source with an inline citation should be given for each.

"To visit Spain and not forget Greece. This means that the white race has to return to the Mediterranean to continue being. We must return there as pilgrims who return to drink from the mysterious water that has shaped us. If the time to come is not a Renaissance it will be the end. “ J.V.

"The architecture worthy of the name cannot be utilitarian or ornamental. Every human gesture, every human action, is the result of a complex association of ideas. ... And, since antiquity, the job well done is defined as an alliance of the beautiful, the comfortable, the solid and the economical; there is not a need to meet, but a series of needs that appear in sequence and in hierarchical order. The lyric is a human function, just as walking or breathing. We cannot therefore accept the possibility of a choice between a purely utilitarian architecture and an ornamental architecture." J.V.

"Fortunately, nature keeps something of the primitive intuition inside us. Because, what would be of a world where everything was explained or had need of an explanation? Hateful, hateful. Magic exists. It must exist to perfume life and no matter how hard science tries to kill its mother, Magic, it won't be able to. There will always be magicians or geniuses that won't allow this to happen." J.V.

"The program before us should be addressed to the man, the only character that should be exalted over all other things in this mechanical era in which technique may crush us. We must be the apostles of men. Reaction to the purely scientific. You may ask how one can be the interpreter of a social physiognomy which may presume everything as derived from the brain, only by reacting. We must not forget that there is such thing as the heart, and that only it can bestow greatness upon purposes. All those who let themselves be dragged by cerebral conceptions will only accomplish small things that will not be recognized in the short term." J.V. Leschnei (talk) 16:45, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What does this mean?[edit]

I am not sure what this sentence is trying to say. I removed it and, hopefully, someone can make it more clear.

he designed the garage of the Servicio de Urgencia de la Asistencia Pública Nacional. This marked a radical break from Vilamajó's artistic past, not only for the suppression of ornaments independent from the structure as an expressive means of the building, but also for its use in such a way as to meet the expressive function by itself, and at the same time define a space with the characteristics of circulation freedom demanded by the program.

Leschnei (talk) 16:46, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]