In Residence: Ricardo Bofill on Nowness.com
It's a strange thing, seeing photographs you have poured over so many times you are certain you understand their deepest intricacies begin to move before you.
Yet, Albert Moya has done a beautiful job of transforming the sequence of images - stills, almost stills, and slow pans - into a sense of the quality and sequencing of the space. This short film outdoes the images in ways I could not even have imagined.
Within the raw shell - those curtains, that lush greenness, the furnishing! Suddenly Bofill's place has a denseness to it - it is full of space and possibility.
Bofill says it best himself:
It’s here where I know how to live, here where I know how to workThe idea of a space which helps you to understand what it means to march through life as yourself - a space which just fits - that's a fairly wonderful thing to search for.
Where I start to think and project, my life is always made up of projections,
because the profession of architecture leads you to project the future,
so this influences your own mind
My life is always a project moving forward,
more than a story from the past
