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Suite Magazine

Regular collaborations (2005-2008)

I met Suite magazine´s editor, Marta Capdevila, through a great roommate I had, Julieta, who I knew from high school. We lived in la rue d´Avinyó, and so we were called, Les Demoiselles d´Avinyó, with another English roommate we had, Becky.

I left to Paris for an Erasmus Exchange program in 2005, and when I came back I went to see Marta for coffee, at her headquarters then in Plaza del Sol. During that coffee she thought I should be writing!

I had never thought about it seriously... I loved to write, I just didn´t thought I could do it like this, for a real magazine! Thank God she thought otherwise 😊 She said she needed someone to write on architecture and I accepted.

 

I will always be grateful to her for thinking for her confidence in my wirting skills and for offering me this job. She is actually the real guilty person for my writing career. From then on I was unstoppable 😊


 Again, like for DAMn later, I always wrote about things I wanted. My favorite mode of working.  

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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