There are no secrets, but there is one key: one must attend to intuition, feel things rather than intellectualize them. When an object reaches your hands and you place it somewhere for the first time — that was its place, its rightful spot. That way of approaching an object has more to do with creation. Intuition gives us the cue to read things that have not been codified.

When I first saw the site where I would build the Laureles house, I was struck by a pair of oak trees occupying a slope of the land, lightly shadowed by their sinuous branches. I did not only want to preserve the sensation produced by those chiaroscuros cast upon the ground. More importantly, I resolved to respect the presence of these magnificent guests, who had inhabited that place for several decades. It was thus that the center of the house was given over to an interior courtyard that would keep this pair of trees in the best possible condition. They became a kind of signal — the true inhabitants of the house — and so from the very moment the project was drawn up, it was decided they would be included.

Around this project there also revolved the idea of paying a modest tribute to someone I consider one of the most important painters of the twentieth century: Gunther Gerzso. He explored..

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