El tiempo como materia activa - Josean Ruiz Esquíroz

In ancient times, architects sought to mitigate the passage of time with their solid constructions. This chimera was questioned at the beginning of the 20th century with the programmed obsolescence of the futurists: "Houses will last less than we do... Each generation will have to build its own city". This text explains how time has become an active matter in the work of the contemporary architect. Architecture, like music, literature or cinema, is a temporal discipline. We will see that in the Renaissance architecture will become aware of its own history. We will also see how, with Palladio, printed paper will become a more effective means of conquering the future than built reality itself. But the real change would come in the twentieth century when a new temporal awareness would infiltrate from the sciences, the arts and the media, which would change the discourse of architects in the second half of the century. From the assimilation of space-time, passing through the cinematographic image-time or the spectacular time of capitalism, the author proposes a journey through the multiplicity of time that inevitably reverberates in today's architecture. 

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz

(Pamplona, 1975) Professor of Projects at the ETSAM and Doctor of Architecture with Extraordinary Prize from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. At the age of eleven, during a family trip to Brasilia, he was struck by the city and asked his father: "What do you have to study to build buildings? He began his architectural studies in Pamplona and finished them in Barcelona. He received a scholarship from La Caixa to do a master's degree at Columbia University in New York. He has combined his career as an architect with his passion for teaching and research. He founded the Zon-e and Ruizesquiroz Arquitectos studios and was the first director of the Norman Foster Foundation. He has taught at Columbia University, the State University of New York and the Francisco de Vitoria University. His projects and texts have been published in magazines such as Arquitectura Viva, LOG and The Architectural Review, among others.