Life
Attention is all we need
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
What our brains can learn from our buildings? “Attention is the thing we offer, that we owe most to the world we live in… I do find it the regulatory ideal.
Life
Introduction to CAZA
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
“Cooking is the language through which society unconsciously reveals its structure” -Claude Levi-Strauss Our stance on authenticity stems from a love affair with the primitive forms found in the dustbins of Euclidean…
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Failure
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
How do we make sense of failure? Most of our projects will be stymied or interrupted. Near bankruptcy seems endemic to a new architecture practice.
Life
Looseness
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
1 looseness. Relaxaxtion 2 pull back fast after contact 3 constant rhythm 4 move right when you want to hit left. 5 protect but open.
Life
Making The Shot While Falling: On Iversonian Beauty
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation.
Life
On Innovation
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
We have started to doubt the innovation narrative. What if our thirst for the cutting edge is misguided? What if all this running does not bring us to the front?
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Slip Left then Punch Right: Anticipating Volatility
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
“To gaze in on another may be an inadequate path to understanding, but in the case of boxing, it might be the only one” -Christopher Bedford Boxing is probably our earliest form of civilized combat.
Life
Overlay
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
Our first job is to stack one thing on top of another without seeking alignment. This doesn’t block or cancel the previous layer—it multiplies the original through a deliberately crooked repetition.
Life
On Practice
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
We have worked for the last 5 years on projects in the Philippines—an archipelago located 5,000 miles away from our studio in Brooklyn.