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A BEAUTIFUL MOVIE ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD




Let us get it over with right away. The end of Lars von Trier's film 'Melancholia'. Everybody dies. Not just the guests at the grand wedding held in the first part of the film at an ever-so-romantic castle surrounded by a golf course. And not just all life on Earth. For in the world evoked by the Danish film maker this time, we are absolutely alone in the universe. So what ends in our planet's cosmic embrace with the ten times bigger planet, Melancholia, is life as such and our recollection of it.
No ending could be more final. And, as Trier remarks with a black humour germane to him:
»In a way, the film does have a happy ending.«

Daniel Libeskind | 17 palabras de inspiración arquitectónica

TEDtalk · Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration


Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. And that wonder is really what has created the greatest cities, the greatest spaces that we have had. And I think that is indeed what architecture is. It is a story. By the way, it is a story that is told through its hard materials. But it is a story of effort and struggle against improbabilities. If you think of the great buildings, of the the cathedrals, of the temples, of the pyramids, of pagodas, of cities in India and beyond, You think of how incredible this is that that was realized not by some abstract idea, but by people.

And I therefore believe that optimism is what drives architecture forward. It's the only profession where you have to believe in the future. You can be an general, a politician, an economist who is depressed, a musician in a minor key, a painter in dark colors. But architecture is that complete ecstasy that the future can be better. And it is that belief that I think drives society.


La arquitectura no se basa en el concreto ni en el acero o en los elementos de la tierra. La arquitectura se basa en el maravillarse. Y ha sido realmente ese maravillarse lo que ha creado las más grandiosas ciudades, los espacios más grandiosos que hemos tenido. Y creo que eso es en realidad lo que la arquitectura es. Es un relato. De hecho, es un relato que es narrado a través de sus materiales sólidos. Pero es un relato de esfuerzo y lucha contra las improbabilidades. Si piensas en las grandiosas edificaciones, en las catedrales, en los templos, en las pirámides, en las pagodas, en las ciudades de India y más allá, piensas en lo increíble que es que todo eso haya sido realizado no por alguna idea abstracta, sino por la gente.

Y por tanto creo que el optimismo es lo que conduce a la arquitectura hacia adelante. Es la única profesión en la cual tienes que creer en el futuro. Uno puede ser un general, un político, un economista que está deprimido, un músico en clave menor, un pintor en colores apagados. Pero la arquitectura es ese éxtasis pleno de que el futuro puede ser mejor. Y es esa esperanza lo que creo que mueve a la sociedad.

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