Holiday home . Gemeses
ATELIERDACOSTA . photos: © Tiago Casanova
In the following excerpt from Herberto Hélder’s latest book continuum, his poundian “punti luminosi” illuminate with particular power a simple architect who designs a house. It is necessary to read, read once more and conclude that one can only wish to perceive by slowly chewing each syllable, as if having lunch, instead of the soup and bread of that day. Isn’t the project and the planned and thought architecture “the love of things in their future time?”; isn’t the “absolute home” the “childhood home”? It seems obvious now but I would not have gotten there on my own, with all this splendor of the terminological precision. The design of a house had never made me so suddenly recall this universe of Herberto until the day I received this order, and not so long had passed since his death: this design could be something of ephemeral, specifically in wood, – it would consciously last no longer than 20, 30 years -, should be conceived thinking of a childhood still in its early stages and of the family life, and its construction should, last but not least, be fast, very fast, as in a race against the clock disputed with these two last”space-time”. Continue reading ATELIERDACOSTA
