August 6th was largely a working day, but we did have two lectures — Contemporary Architecture in Compostela and the Distinguished Lectore by Jacques Gubler in the evening.
The lecture on Contemporary Architecture featured a number of more modern buildings in Santiago and was presented with a series of “strategies” for integrating new architecture in a city that has so much history. For the record, here are the strategies:
- have a sense of humor
- employ discretion and quality
- call on sensibility and emotion
- play on presence and absence
- use coherence and honesty
- create intimacy
In the afternoon I played with trying to create interesting views from my pedestrian bridge and walked around the city for a bit trying to observe how windows create views in the local architecture. I’ve posted a few photos of what I found, which are likely not particularly interesting for the windows, but give a good sense of what it’s like to walk around Santiago de Compostela.
I’ll post separately on Jacques Gubler’s talk.