Croquis Bloques at Atlas Cafe
An investigative series that explores the architectural convergence between mapping frameworks and chromatic blocks; while dealing with the perception of space, scale, and cities, all colliding in one plane.
Intersections of lines form the fabric that go from one to the other in this space called canvas - the city grid - which later becomes threads of color that paint linen, cotton, and wool - or concrete, asphalt and steal.
Our lives are colored tracing routes, tracing lines that bring us to weave ideas and allow cities to become engines woven by time. Those colors that expand and contract through the black tumult of mechanization, that despite their efforts, could not drown the warmth of any man in this seemingly hostile city.
“There exists in every city, from the moment that the city is inhabited by man and made by him, this fundamental rhythm of signification which is the opposition, alternation, and the juxtaposition of marked and unmarked elements…
We are thinking about the city in the same terms as the consciousness perceiving it, which means discovering the image of the city among the readers of the city”
— Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City (1960)
