Archives 6. Solano Benítez & Gloria Cabral

Title: Archives 6. Journal of Architecture. Solano Benítez & Gloria Cabral Edited by: C2C Proyecto Editorial Language: English and Spanish “The work of the Gabinete de Arquitectura has not had the publications that might correspond to the relevance of its work. Among the reasons that may explain this situation would be a continued lack of concern on the part of the Cabinet for sufficiently documenting the projects they carry out, to which must be added the work with certain drawing software and with certain procedures which, although they work perfectly well for building, are not the most suitable, as a graphic medium, for communicating to those who cannot visit their works or for those who want to learn more about the procedures they follow in the course of each work”. “La obra del Gabinete de Arquitectura no ha tenido las publicaciones que pudiesen corresponder a la relevancia de su trabajo. Entre las razones que puedan explicar esta situación estaría una despreocupación continuada del Gabinete por documentar suficientemente los proyectos que realizan, a lo que hay que añadir el trabajo con ciertos programas de dibujo y con ciertos procedimientos que, si bien funcionan perfectamente para poder construir, no son los más adecuados, como medio gráfico, para realizar una comunicación a quienes no pueden visitar sus obras ni tampoco para quienes quieran adentrarse en los procedimientos que siguen en el transcurso de cada trabajo.” Economy, breeze and shadow. These three words could define with some accuracy the content of this monograph and, more interestingly, the approach to the architectural question developed by Gabinete de Arquitectura, the Paraguayan office run by Solano Benítez and Gloria Cabral. We say it could, but it is really no more than a crude attempt.