Casa Gili

“…in all these works there is a rigor in geometry, a precision when resolving with it the very obligations that composition criteria, moreover freely chosen, impose”. “…en todas estas obras hay un rigor en la geometría, una precisión a la hora de resolver con ella las propias obligaciones que los criterios de composición, por otra parte libremente elegidos, imponen”. “…a high degree of sensitivity always appears in his works that alleviates the puritanical hardness that emerges from his virtues: sensitivity that goes beyond what could immediately be understood as a willingness to understand textures, lights, color… to acquire greater generality”. “…en sus obras aparece siempre un alto grado de sensibilidad que alivia la dureza puritana que se desprende de sus virtudes: sensibilidad que va más allá de lo que podría entenderse inmediatamente como una voluntad de comprender las texturas, las luces, el color… para adquirir una mayor generalidad”. “…in the face of the enthusiasm and optimism of the coherence with which they worked in the past, the fragmentation, the discontinuous, the disparate”. “…frente al entusiasmo y el optimismo de la coherencia con la que trabajaron en el pasado, la fragmentación, lo discontinuo, lo dispar”. Quotes by Rafael Moneo, via Revista Arquitectura Coam, n°269. 1987 . Translation by Hidden Architecture If at that time it was the ambitious project on Calle Balmes that was considered a turning point, serving to forecast the future direction of his work, this house in Ibiza will presumably mark another milestone in his career. The quality of the approach, the conscious acceptance of incurring in contradictions inherent to his manner, reveal certain recently written shadows.