A Conversation with Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramón Vilalta
We arranged to meet RCR in Espai Barberí on a Saturday morning to avoid distractions or visits that might interrupt the course of the conversation. Since this is the fourth issue of El Croquis devoted to RCR in a joint career spanning more than two decades, we decided to look at the continuity of their work and detect which traits have survived in a body of work which recently seems to have abandoned seemingly untouchable apriorisms such as geographical proximity and concise form.
The visit took the form of an extensive reply in the form of flashbacks, beginning in the company of Rafael Aranda at Mas del Vent and Mas Salvá, two farmhouses near Palamós, and concluding some hours after the conversation with Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta on the site of one of their early works: the Tussols-Basils track and field stadium. Despite the years between the completion of these two projects, the stone walls of the houses and the oak forest on the athletics track suggest a synchronic interpretation of RCR's radical exercises: architecture as a perpetual motion machine that can use the inertia of the pre-existing without the urge to make an impact, in clear defiance of the conventions of authorship.
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