SKFandra 02. PLeats (english edition)

This issue is dedicated to the pleats, which like the origamipieces of Pedro Nuñez that derive an apparently simple element– such as a square paper, or a discipline with a name like architecture - into unpredictable, beautiful, complex, and successive variations that change the way to think and place architecture, generating the opposing conflict between exercise and profession described by Nicholas Ray in his text architecture and its ethical dilemmas, and by Fernando Perez Oyarzún in his essay about the intensity and the idea: “ethics, city and architecture”. In a scenery of change, our work faces motivational problems which the Norwegian social scientist Torgunn Nesse exposes in “motivation in the new economy”; as well as confusion in understanding some concepts that the Chilean philosopher Jorge Eduardo Rivera helps to clarify in “What do we talk about, when we talk about ethics?”, so we realize, they are more appropriated and possible to Architecture, than we normally believe. The origami folded pieces, admits us to hide secrets and mysteries, veiled compartments, or make histrionic-literary displays, giving the pleasure to discover History as a literary Plagiarism, proposed so by Pedro Donoso Aranguiz, with Literature as a critic of architecture, through the fierce fragment of Austerliz from Sebald, dedicated to the New National Library of France (Dominique Perrault), and as the best conceptual comprehension of architecture ever written, through Victor Hugo in Notre Damme of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Damme) for whom architecture was… a chronicle (made) of stone...All those inflexions and all the absence are found in this succession of pleats, never ending and so infinite as the options of combinations on a chess game.