Tolle et lege

Saint Augustine is crying and in complete turmoil. He throws himself on the grounds and begs for God’s assistance. In a state of weeping, bitter contrition Augustine hears a child’s voice from a nearby house say, in a sing-song way, “Take it and Read it” Augustine, taking it as a sign, opens the nearest book, which was Paul’s letter to the Romans and reads. Says Augustine, “it was as though my heart was filled with a light of confidence and all the shadows of my doubt were swept away.”

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Chozo Extremeño en Hornachos, Badajóz

Chozo Extremeño en Hornachos, Badajóz:

Este chozo se encuentra junto a un cortijo en la Sierra del Mampar, cerca de Hornachos, en Badajóz. Estas viviendas temporales de pastores son desmontables y transportables y se levantan trenzando un enramado sin apenas amarres, como indicaba el profesor J. A. Hasler tras estudiar detalladamente estos cobijos prehistóricos aún en uso en 1966:

“Los techos cónicos se hacen en Extremadura asentando en el suelo o en la pared de piedra unos palos sin labrar, los cuales se juntan arriba en un solo punto, ofreciendo la espeluznante maravilla de un equilibrio sin amarre alguno”

Estos verdaderos eco-domos escenifican bastante bien cual ha sido el tratamiento que han tenido en estos últimos 40 años los conocimientos tradicionales, varias décadas que hemos empleado en menospreciar y abandonar técnologías que maravillarían al mismísimo Fuller. Atención a la geometría del entramado.

Bibliografía:

Carlos Flores, Arquitectura Popular Española, Aguilar 1974.

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"Stay Young" General MacArthur, 1945

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair, these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether seventy or seventeen there is in every beings heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the stars and the starlight things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events and the childlike appetite for what’s next, and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the infinite, so long you are young.