IT IS NECESSARY TO IMPROVE THE ARCHITECTURE. AN IDEA.



Away that the location seems predictable to me of a chaos. ¿ What we make with a football field in the city in full 21st century?

¿ there was not the sport city in Paterna where by now it trains Valencia, to more than that their relocation out of Valencia had regenerated the zones "in no-man's land" how it is the degraded one it bars of the Comma, which the PAI of the Mas del Rosari will not be able to make. Or next locations for these patches -between the Horta and the Field of Túria?

With an evident advantage: the proximity of the By-Pass. The València CF, any more is not suns the team of the city, it is something more!

In spite of being a anonymous corporation, in a basic way, of half a dozen of men.

Away of the transparency that we need for any urbanistic operation, of an anonymous Corporation that is the club. Not a club in the classical meaning, that is, a sport society. That he designs a complex while invading the avenues and terrains of public domain of the inhabitants of the city.

About this, I have to say several polemical points that they boiled for me on head, in the moment of writing up the related article and that continue thinking 15 years afterwards:

1. In this decade and half we have continued thought our city in format small and without articulation. Like when I wrote it.

2. Of entry I have to say that I am from those that it believes that Valencia is necessary that him placed in the cities of the second crown. And now, I reaffirm myself. Because of that it is necessary that the population we increase half a million of inhabitants.

3. The avenue I imagined (dreaming),- when suns were fields of onions, alfalfa and lettuces- which it would happen like the Parisian axle that it joins that it goes from Louvre- Tulleries- Plaça of the Étoile- Fields Elysian-until the Défense. In a basic way this last stretch, in which all the traffic goes buried to exit itself of Paris.

What we make, in Valencia, with this succession -endless- of roundabouts that every day they generate crowd of accidents and collapses?

¿ Do you know, and now we see that the conference hall of Norman Foster was the bait to make all the operation? A beautiful building low, typical of one of the big architects of the 20th century, all smothered among insignificant skyscrapers; by now does Foster not even remove on their COLLECTIONS of complete works?

Here, against the article the big promoters have made a row of fritters how alone some individuality is capable of avoiding. Here it is where it scrapes the present of the article. We do not know link art and business how it says the article. Yet we have not arrived to this point of civilization. Massive free promotion (without competition) forehead to accurate and public promotion. At least, mixed. As the northern Europe.

Some months ago somebody commented how "... in Valencia it is already many centuries since we are not taking out notes good in architecture..."

Which it is evident. Just it is necessary to stroll Valencians for Valencia and other cities and observe few places of quality that produce us a certain emotion and/or evocation. This happens, among other many factors, for the shift that we suffer in this society in general -and in particular, the professionals of the edilícia one- with respect to the European, American and Japanese currents.
Fruit of the self satisfaction, lacks self-criticism that it made possible and makes possible the continuous insulation with the subsequent and unavoidable colonialism through magazines, books and audiovisual mediums.

However the crack has opened up with the operation NOW of Alcoi, pioneer of beautiful nine in so many of other occasions.

It would be necessary, however, to penetrate in the experience in a more global way and that entailed collateral allotments in the construction fact.
Already some weeks ago the central administration gave feasibility to the Flat Ground 14 of the Coput that will integrate into the Plan of Housing with the goal to favour the construction of VPO, through the inn in the market of cheap ground.

Using this occasion, it would be necessary to dedicate a zone in order to organize a sample that the construction of social housing would combine so much, that it was the point of view of the IBA'87 in Berlin, how the public space was it in Barcelona along the former decade.

A magnificent opportunity in order to which professionals of here collaborate with other of international reputation and face other of international reputation polemically.

Obviously, this sample would come off lame if not there took together an exhibition that involved industries it through a presentation of modern techniques of construction, industrialization, new materials and products, etc, in the Fair of Samples; even so like the possibility to equip and to furnish some of the pilot floors, as it happened in 1927 with the Weissenhofsiedlung de Stutgart that it carried the embryo of the exhibition of the Werkbund to Berlin (1931): the huge Bauaustellung.

In short it would be obtained:

1) Attempting to reduce the shift either mentioned.

2) That the industry -especially the one of here- considered the art as a force economic. And its corollary: that this corner of Europe, with the time, have a specific gravity in the New Europe.

3) To have a piece of city in the periphery (¿) prototypical and monumentalized, in front of the process of lethality in which it has entered the regeneration of Ciutat Vella. Moreover more, of a contribution to the architecture of the exchange.

Josep Blesa i Morante, Architecte.

The 10th November of 1991 published. Supplement of TERRITORIO Y VIVIENDA of the newspaper Levante-EMV