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We
began the project by taking advantage of our "outsider" status.
Over the years we've discovered that an outside perspective can be invaluable
in evaluating a design in which so many different issues are at play—including
cultural issues. As an outsider you can only be left with an overall impression
from what you see, hear, and are told, and these impressions are then absorbed
and expressed in the form of design drawings. We also studied trends and
historical changes of the Mediterranean culture for which we were designing.
It was instructive for us to learn that in this area of Europe the concept
of a "hearth" was more readily associated with the kitchen than
with the living room, as is the case in other cultures. Their stove inserts
have gone more of the way of the cook stove, considered more as a modern
appliance and less as a mantle or an old piece of furniture. So what was
the correct direction to follow for a modern Spanish design? |
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