Archiquote | Federico Babina

The words can be considered as architecture. Simple concepts with deep meanings and complex thoughts explained with simplicity. Quotations more or less known as a product of the thought of some of the most prolific architects. The idea behind the project was to put words into manifest examples of concepts and aesthetics of some architects. As advertising signs that relate architectural’s thought. Words that take shape and draw a concept and an idea of architecture. Billboards that evoke a Las vegas of architecture where the phrases guide us to understand a little more the idea hidden behind the work done with volumes and space. Few words are sometimes able to summarize brilliantly the work of a lifetime. In these 13 illustrations are mixed, intersect and integrate aphorisms and shapes in a communicative game. The architects find in words an additional means and a valuable tool to explain and express their work. They become part of the architecture with the same explosive power of a built volume. "Less is more" is an architecture of Mies van der Rohe as much as the forms of his buildings. An architecture made of words. A slogan that contains in three words his architectural concept.