12-02-2003
Rafael Moneo: Barcelona Auditorium, 1988-1999

The result is difficult choices such as construction of structures dictated by precise architectural rules or the search for a new coherence between graphic convention and building convention, that is, between design and production. Yet more difficult was the decision to think of construction as an act of progressive detachment of the architectural object from its creator; thus construction is no longer a forced transposition of a graphic design into reality, but rather its consumption in favour of independent presence of the building in its setting.