Minglings. The project adventure in reality action field / Przemieszania. Przygoda projektowa na rzeczywistym polu działania

Modern is the mingling in which past and present preserve their apparent quality of strangers within a common continuity of culture and research. This essay investigates the mingling - as a tradition of research and method of work - starting from Mikrokosmos (Béla Bartók, 1926-39) and deepening it through the Appartement Beistegui (Le Corbusier, 1929-31). In both, the choice of the fragment, its clarification, the combination with other parts through the use of empty intervals, refers to the composition of figures. By the poetic manipulation and mingling of apparently irreconcilable pieces, clearly belonging to different times, these figures appear fertile to experiment with the problems of architecture today, in the reality as field of project action. The search for new spatialities within the margins of the already given is tantamount to linking oneself to reality, accepting it as a fact connate by the commingling, tolerating “the alchemies” to overcome the “No!” and taking “part of the risks of life”.