México: partida de ajedrez. Mario Pani

Abstract

This is an essay on how the architect Mario Pani Darqui (México, D.F., 1911-1993) shapes his own look. His vision is that of the player of chess. Strategic, eagle-eyed and transverse, deep and sur-prised, incisive and extensive, mimetic and opposite. Everything to a time. On the basis of this recon-struction of his way of seeing -crucial for the understanding of the Mexican architecture and urbanism of the XX century- a conceptual action is presented in the vicinity of the Manzanares River in Madrid. A spiritual, silent landscape, that across three radical situations forces the one who contemplates it an instantaneous exercise of meditation. It is carried out and charted, giving like proved a sensitive ap-proximation on how intervening in the landscape and his record.