© Ángela Losa / Gabriel Gallegos

It was in the 1970s that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari formulated their theorem on the “image of thought,” based on the botanical term ‘rhizome.’ Any teaching can be connected to another. All are communicative vessels.

In a way, architecture today is rhozimatic. In the current architectural scene, there exists no common trend, thought, analysis, or approach, but rather a fragmented reality that offers us all the possible ways a project can be: a boutique or wardrobe from which to choose. A true supermarket of culture with multiple affinities that take on their respective categories of identity.

One of these multiple architectural identities has to do with reviving the tradition and image of the architect as a craftsperson, in reaction to our urban way of life and to technological production. The idea is not new: the future does not lie in industrialization, but in vernacular languages. Such considerations as the artisanal method, the visual force of matter, egalitarian participatory processes, and the care of the planet through the sustainable, all become highly relevant...[+]