Light in Architecture

sevenlight and architectural heritage

Opposite page Attitudes towards restoration have varied through the ages; Serliana window, Palace of Carlos V, Granada, 1527, by Pedro Machuca; restoration by A Jiménez Torrecillas, 1995.

To repeat: before restoration it was the time of the artists, who acted on the church by loving it and destroying it to build something necessary and new. Then came the time of the restorers, who care for history and thereby become its prisoners.

– Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero, La Mezquita de Córdoba¹

Between Two Lights, the “Open” Building

Historically, architecture has habitually functioned like a complex, living organism, adapting ...