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Question – Fabiola Mele – Architecture is not a country for youngsters. Unlike other domains – more specifically linked to art and design, where it is maybe easier for young professionals to propose something innovative – it takes years and years of practice to do good architecture or to understand most of its implications. At the same time, we must recognize that today the greatest part of official glossy magazines is lacking of critical contents – most of them simply replicate what the websites already do, but with more advertising, and taking more care about sponsors then about readers. Taking into account these premises, how do you perceive your role as youngsters trying to give a voice to a personal debate based on critical considerations?
Answer – Amaranta Aguilar – We think that architecture is a process –and so is maturation- so as youngsters we are in that path along with her. We cannot recognize this profession as a forbidden one for young people, as far as we know this discipline has a continuous evolution, day by day; actually more because of society that by architects hands, from changing furniture and the color of the walls to regenerating a whole square. These changes provided by design in all his natures are the result of a constant interaction acquired as youth and processed over time.
As a discipline held and audited by society, considering the evolving condition, it is necessary to take advantage of the early “numb” years, there is where we can give a voice, provide critical reviews and several point of views. Although the democratization of architecture, we find ourselves inside the era of oversaturation, so individual opinion is really appreciated; we needed a space to verbalize apart from higher spheres or influenced media, architecture, art, design, photography, society, we are not committed to anything. We are youngsters talking to youngsters about our hereafter, and we accept all kinds of audience.
Question – Cristina Gallizioli – Forgotten boundaries, memories, left out art, consciousness… your main themes seem to sway between nostalgia and potential – or lost – futures. Rather than proposing solutions, as the profession would demand, you crystallize time to analyze it from outside its flow. How is your position towards time, future and possibilities of intervening with it?
Answer – Jorge Sánchez – Before attempting to place a brick, we need to stop and think where we stand, what we have done and where we want to go as Latin American cities, this leads to a breakthrough point. We are relatively new cities with strong growth; we are still caught up in modernity and we continue to build with that train of thought.
We have a great opportunity as a country -long before being conquered by the Occidental culture- in Mexico, there were civilizations with a population whose thoughts regarding life were cyclical, and the relationship between human beings and their context was of mutual respect, unlike modern thought progress.
Given this wave of growth and “progress”, to take a pause, analyze our context -both in socio-political and geographical matters- and stop building, it is already the beginning of a solution.