Sleepless nights, models bigger than oneself, making houses, kilometres rolls of paper, uncountable litres of coffee and outfits as black as what my soul is supposed to be.

These are the things with which many people have represented architecture students over time and although I will not deny that it is not entirely false, it is not entirely true.

The truth is that perhaps at some point I have fulfilled every one of them, but what people forget is all the rest. All the part that makes this race hook, passionate and make bad situations not that much.

 

I am sure that any university experience contributes much more than what the degree merely gives, but I also consider that, in particular, the architecture gives us much more than what urban legends or myths tell about it.

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One of the visions that I have expanded and matured the most during these years of my career is the recognition to society, to open our eyes and look to the side that is necessary when a large part of society does it to the other one. By this, I mean every time I have had to develop a social project during my degree (which were not few) as well as urban developments and plans, at first glance perhaps not so linked to this.

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When you start a project, the best of this is the fund that you have to look for and that you have to put yourself, soak up the reality that surrounds us, not only architecturally, nor socially, but in all aspects. Taking into account the history of the place, the territory, the people who are there or who will come, their behaviour and their visions and wishes of the world, in the end, it is this that makes this “blank canvas” not be even for a moment and, at the same time, it is what makes you somehow imbue yourself with everything that seems not to be architecture but at the same time makes it so.

 

If I can conclude with something clear after these years of learning within the university framework, it is that what is strictly academic is as important as the "things that they do not tell you", those that you have to discover and that, in fact, if they were gutted you would not they would be understood in the same way. Those that impress in and that make your projects have something of you and at the same time that helps you contribute something good to society, which in the end, is one of the purposes that this career should harbour.