Ignasi Solà-Morales legacy

When addressing the subject of urban culture, I cannot overlook the influence that Ignási Solà-Morales has had on me, his other students and colleagues of mine. Ignasi was, indeed, inspiring, since he outlined one of the most notable and insightful theoretical cartographies of contemporary metropolitan and architectural condition. In this complex architectural thought process, the selection of categories in which a provisional interpretation of a contemporary city can be based, which, in his own words, decentralized and composed of unstable outlines that are a result of the crystallization of different forces. These resulted in a complex system, one united by the permanent generosity of the intention to democratically overcome the strangeness of the late-capitalist and post-historic world, with an attention to post-modernity that does not obscure resistant modwernist intellectual heritage but rather seeks to rediscover proto-modernist interests in accordance with a democratization of linear consciousness. By coherently pursuing a disciplinary capacity reactive to the forces currently at work at the metropolitan and affecting the development of the city, Ignasi was also the first to alert us of the need to overcome the approaches of the previous decades, which had become commonplace. His views favoured an unstable reflection that shakes off the security of contentment.