What is quality in architecture" How can we measure such an open concept"

© Lorena Darquea

Architects: Dear Architects

Location: San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Dear Architects: Rubén Octavio Sepúlveda Chapa, Abel Salazar, Ana Paulina Reyes, Jorge Jiménez, Cinthia Cavazos, Marcela Martínez

Area: 250.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Lorena Darquea

© Lorena Darquea

What is quality in architecture" How can we measure such an open concept"If every turn, every detail, every sequence that gives form to an architectural experience it is thought throughly, can we say it has quality" Can we really measure the amount of thought that gets put into a building" I think we can. I think we are capable of at least exploring the idea to perceive the process of thinking behind a material solution that conforms space. When someone thinks of a window, a threshold, a hallway or a set of stairs like it was the first time, we can be sure that a bridge between thought and matter has been constructed. And such an experience at least takes us near the concept of quality in design.     Casa Taller Tampiquito is a house tailored for a very particular person: an industrial designer, a creative woman that works with ceramics. She asks Dear Architects for a simple house for...