Saturday, August 15, 2009

Actualmente en muchos países latinoamericanos hay un amplio sector de población para el cual la vida transcurre movida por una dinámica que se puede describir con las categorías de desborde y de continua informalidad. Las instituciones formales de nuestras sociedades se han ido "quedando cortas" frente a la explosión demográfica, la modernizacion acelerada y la confusión ideológica, y junto a ellas ha ido apareciendo un mundo de informalidad.
Samuel Escobar. POSTMODERNIDAD Y LA IGLESIA EVANGELICA.

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Belongings, then, always weigh on me at some level, even when I do not carry them on my back. Accumulating goods takes far more time and energy than we ever
know.

Arthur Paul Boers. THE WAY IS MADE BY WALKING: A PILGRIMAGE ALONG THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO.
When he was 26, Gaudi wrote in a diary, "The ornamentation has been, is and will be coloured. Nature does not produce anything that is monochrome or uniform in color: neither vegetation nor geology, nor in topography nor in the animal kingdom. The contrast in colour is always more or less alive and from this we are obliged to colour in part or all of an architectural piece, colouring that will perhaps disappear when the hand of time gives it another colour that is more befitting and precise for something old".

Antoni Gaudi quoted by Juan-Eduardo Cirlot. GAUDI: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS ARCHITECTURE.