(in)forma: My Thoughts on the Essay. Part 1. "Clasificar Rostros"

   In this post I'll be writing about a text from the university's architecture magazine (in)forma, issue number  5. This is the first on a two part series.

   Written by one of our own professors, Liliana Ramos, this essay writes about Roberto Carlos Guadalupe, an ex alumni's, thesis and his quest to see and classify every possible facade in the world. Ambitious as it may sound, there are, according to Guadalupe, a finite amount that can be quantified and sorted into categories. In my opinion, therein lies the premise, "according to", this is a personal view and classification of a matter that could be discussed in an infinite number of ways. Ramos determines the categorizing of anything to be a system developed by us humans to segregate in parts a world that we may otherwise not be able to understand, deriving these from the purpose in which they are needed at the moment, we as the viewer determine the "artificial" parameters.

   Guadalupe's parameters consists on bringing out what works and what doesn't in what he refers to as "facade design crisis". He developed a series of matrix designs to showcase his views on similarities, functionality, aesthetics, surroundings and much more.