As a kid I remember enjoying Fridays very much. One reason is because my Spanish class could always seem to coerce Mr. Echemendia (the teacher) into showing movies. Afterall, it was Friday.
One of the few movies actually in Spanish was "El Tornado" (Twister) with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. An eccentric group of storm chasers prey on tornadoes so they can test their tracking technology and prove that it's better than some other guy's tracking technology.
Anyway, this relates to architecture all in the last two minutes of the film. Helen and Bill are chased by a chubby, category 5 twister. They run into a shack and what follows is amazing...
Bill uses his belt and ties them to some metal structure within that rickity tickity abandoned shack. This big ol' nado' approaches and rips the shack away and reveals them tied to this metal structure. And when everything calms down in the end, for miles around, the only man-made building to survive is that metal thing (I still don't know what it is) digging deep into the ground. Maybe some kind of well?
My lasting conception comes as an opposition to some of the buildings I've seen in popular magazines today. Many of these houses or whatever have adopted the use of materials to lighten the building, make its innards thinner and present a greater transparency. Very often this is beautiful, green, and practical like the Dwell winner highlighted in an early post.
But I believe there's potential for great beauty in a building centered around a "lasting" concept. Materials that are natural and bring a sense of realness to the house and landscape. I'll try to demonstrate this artistically as best as I can in my next post. Stay tuned, we're doing awesome things together!
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