Presentación

Is it perhaps the right time to outline the cultural frame from which we can obtain a critical reflection about contemporary architecture? What seems more appropriate at this moment of continuous transformations and alterations in architecture is that the possibility of communicating and effectively transmitting knowledge can only occur under conditions having the greatest heterodoxy. The aim is thus to transfer the focus from what happens to what can come out of uncertain links or interactions not previously programmed between those points of view and other actions relating to architecture. The dissolution of limits, categories, or references (professional or strategic) has ended up configuring a dilated scene that ranges from unforeseen chance to empirical pragmatism. This scene becomes extremely fertile terrain for all these exciting interactions to take form. It is on that stimulating platform of ambiguity where "Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos" invites us to take a seat and establish different points of view from which we can derive multiple conclusions and point out plural, alternative and provocative interpretations. This new publication emerges as a university re-action from the Madrid School of Architecture, through the Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos; and, in particular, it emerges out of the will and energy of some individuals, as well as their intellectual generosity, to once again establish scenes of agreement, contrast and opportunity, from which dialogue, thinking and critical reflection can be generated. Out of those initial approaches we can ask further questions, such as: "What interpretations can be extracted from this publication?", or "What possible readings can we make and what kind of expectations could we derive from the coexistence by chance of the following names-individuals?. Is it adequate to do it based on the interaction of times and occurrences that are neither linear nor simultaneous, and even apparently contradictory, and thus review the most recent modernity and the expectations for the future of Architecture? ls it viable for these new interlaced, confus