An excerpt from a water dedicated edition of National Geographic. [April 2010]
A transpose of culture and ritual in the importance of water both spiritually and spatially.
The architectural language of water is cinematic, theatrical and often awe inspiring. The modern utopian examples of Sant’ Elia and Ledoux have underpinning counterweights in the industrial, the brute and the machine.
The language of water is in the grammatic of fragility and ethereal, not as an archetypal typical of availability.
What is the language of mass, of manouvre and migration in cultural transcendence?
The societal melting-pot and an evolving ritual of collecting and storing water in contemporary/ future Barcelona.
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