Mies y la gata Niebla.

Title: Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica Editorial: Puente Editores. Printed in Spain, 2019. ISBN: 9788494969409 “Architecture does not contain the social realm; It is the social realm itself. Architecture does not house humans. Following the findings of the actor-network theory, we can think that architecture is the interaction of a large number of different entities. There is no option for neutral architecture. The material devices are part of the chains of associations that make the daily life unfolds in some ways and not in others. (…) A constitution of human and non-human, of present and other generations to come, of the tacky, the cheesy and the affected, along with the austere and the optimized. A parliamentary architecture that, instead of guaranteeing the survival of the best or the normative, does it of those deprived of prestige, of the subversive and the repulsive, and that, instead of eliminating the disputes, what can only happen by simplification, control and imposition, mediate between them and build a problematic daily life.” “La arquitectura no contiene lo social; es lo social. La arquitectura no aloja a los humanos. Siguiendo los hallazgos de la teoría del actor-red, podemos pensar que la arquitectura es la interacción de un gran numero de entidades diferentes. No existe la opción de la arquitectura neutral. Los dispositivos materiales forman parte de las cadenas de asociaciones que hacen que el día a día pueda transcurrir de unas maneras y no de otras. (…) Una constitución de humanos y no humanos, de generaciones presentes y otras por venir, de lo hortera, lo cursi y lo afectado, junto con lo austero y lo optimizado.