The web that the spider builds, in proportion to its size, is a surprising mechanism of great technological interest. It isn't compact, nor is it unbreakable (despite its high proportional resistance); however, its implementation and the resulting structure are very interesting:

...Let's apply this to architecture, and for a moment think "what if" ... the individual stars and body "crashed" disappeared and we were conscious that reality is a constellation of small dots?

We brought to architecture what Bertolucci, who in the wake of Antonioni or Resnais conceived of as "The Spider's Stratagem," a film based on a story by Jorge Luis Borges, where if you change the figure of the spectator for the architect, the description is the same: the architect, faced with this new "movie", continually questions the data that in any other tape would be reliable: timeline, plot, beginning and end, space, order of the action; that is, the opposite of the conventional embodiment of the stories in traditional architecture, resulting in enormous confusion for the architect, even though at the end of the film the confusion becomes deep satisfaction when he puts the pieces together and makes sense of the story, that of the spider web.

It's been some time since the vast majority of architecture has been made to blush. Will we be able to create a new assembly, and innovative structures, using intelligence, one step ahead of what is conventionally expected of us? Will we be able to generate a "new realism", revise our ways of living, look at the past, relate to our surroundings, to look ahead?

This film, the one about architecture is only suitable for active spectators who interact with the "dilemmas" and "wilful forgetfulness" created by the current state of architecture, a challenge with an art form and absolutely captivating aesthetic, but also and fundamentally focused on the individuals who use it, who pass through it, or who surround it, and, therefore requires an effort on viewing. There are viewers eager to see this film. Are there actors for the filming? I'm sure there are, many. Action! Take one...

METALOCUS 026. Fall/winter/2009. José Juan Barba

José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He has been an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he advised different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).

Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2024), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".

He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...

Awards.-

- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International Committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.

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