Elisa Valero Ramos
At a moment in our culture when noise is enormously dense I have chosen an
architecture that acts in silence, serenely and without drawing attention to
itself.
I began my career in México with the restoration of Felix Candela's work, 'Los
Manantiales' and wrote my first book at the Academia de España in Rome. Since
1997 my workplace is a small office in front of The Alhambra, Granada. My ties
to the art world began in my childhood and it is thus natural that my work
involves interaction with other arts. My mother was a painter and I discovered
the world through her intense gaze and palette.
I am interested in living space, landscape, sustainability, precision and an
economy of expressive resources. I am not interested in styles. I am more
interested in books than in magazines, in consistency than in genius, coherency
than artistic composition. And I understand originality as the rediscovery of
the true meaning of things. I am interested in architecture rooted in the earth
and in its own time. I accept the determinants of architecture as the rules of
a very serious and enjoyable game and I try to play it in a coherent, rigorous
way.
While it is no longer stylish to speak of serving, I believe that an
architect's work is a quintessential service intended to make people's lives
more agreeable - a noble calling that seeks to make the world more beautiful
and more human and to make society fairer. Architecture is no place for the
nostalgic, it is a job for rebels.