Alvaro Siza, a Portuguese architect awarded the Pritzker Prize, has just said that architecture is agony. The argument that justifies the assertion is the scarce valuation of the architecture society, reflecting the low fees and the weak merits. For example, if in the advertising of tourism you have to visit historical architecture works, they will be located in urban centers. In the periphery there is no recognition of works that present a contemporary architectural language, except for the works of the architects Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe that have come to mainstream cultural knowledge. Contemporary architecture is not well known and is usually classified in the category of ugly. The difficulty in loving the spaces and buildings that are produced today alerts to a problem. Architects say that “society has no architectural culture,” and society says that “the architect seeks lucidity to exaggerate his image.” I would say there's something about the two.

Another contemporary element for Agonia is the increase in building materials. Few steps have been drawn to the scandalous rise in prices for wood, doors or washing machines. If we ask about the keys to understanding the situation, no one has instructions, despite a year of crisis. To the price increase is added the price instability, and at the time of the execution of the works of a building, the price of what needs to be done is very serious, how to start a work without knowing its final cost or what to do if the price of the structure is doubled on the construction road. The new situation requires more foresight, and in order to collect the material beforehand, it is necessary that nothing is being done in depth before anything starts.

Perhaps what Siza says is that the ways of doing so far, also at the level of understanding and material, are being exhausted, and in the revolution of the system can be born a redefinition of architecture, the creation of other places of love for buildings.