“The real Wölfflin is in the classroom.” The great art historian considered his classes superior to his books, and perhaps the classes given by the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza were superior to his buildings: the real Oíza is definitely on the platform, and his 1986 lecture at Fundación Juan March can tell us why. Disperse and rambling, the master states he has not prepared for his talk, later calling it a hodgepodge, and warns that he will disappoint the audience presenting “my thought system if I I had one, which I don’t.”...
Fundación Juan March: El auténtico Oíza
Fundación Juan March: Audio de Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza