Mastrantonio FREITAS, JOHN HENRY
President of the College of Architects Region V
How assumes the office of president? (From the human point of view. This is professional, but also as Buenos Aires, if it is) First of all I must clarify that I was appointed to lead this delegation elected by fellow directors, all of them young, without a majority. I accepted because even the most votes so requested and because I have learned to manage teams: You must collect and amass all the ideas and carry out what the team decides. The designation I consider it an honor but also a task. The youth of the board, pulling me, I read as a sign of an era that we hope all the "elders" of a youth wakes up, or solidarity. Because I believe that we live in a society asleep, unaware of others. I must also acknowledge what they did the previous two old directories: clean up a school financially ruined. That gives us another time. That gives us enough time to undertake the overdue task that has the Guild. I think the main and most urgent is to create a space for internal debate about taking a common ethic, since we have the greater responsibility, (sounds redundant) on the intervention and proper construction of our cities. In this issue, we have an urgency and an exquisite thought field for this purpose, because we have the city of Valparaiso before us. I was not born in Valparaiso, was born in Santiago, is my original sin.
How can reconcile the equity issue with modernity?
has seen a mall next to the Parthenon? No, because the investment that causes human development can not eat the attractions, because they are a great potential for human development. The assets must be understood in its original sense: they are the property of past generations who have to manage. Simple, but we live in a generation asleep, we do not realize and put up big pseudo debates in advance deaf. If we, as architects, we heard this, would do the works of architecture that are ours in this time, for the people of today. We would not be just a real estate firm to hire us. See what is taught in schools of architecture and see what we do then in terms of new works. For us, the artists functional architecture only caters for human habitation. Adequately address the here and now puts us in our true modernity. But we need our schools and those of other related professions, teach the hard stuff that is received when trying to rehabilitate buildings. All offices serving needs, that is the poetic mood of a city in each period. Cities are clusters of people served. The need is not a god but a demon, equally poetic.
What you need to be built in the area and really could give a better quality of life for citizens? Before construction, planning. And in the midst of it, a large public square where debate a common destiny.
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