The discovery of X-rays in modern architecture had a great influence, says Beatriz Colomina, architect and academic at Princeton on his recent visit to Tabakalera in San Sebastian. This concrete report shows the relationship between medicine and architecture, since the demands of medicine for the habitability of spaces –ventilation, natural lighting– have been key in the development of design. When the X-rays were first socialized, the image obtained by the new technology, formed by a mysterious cloudy spot around the bone and skeleton, was attractive to the society of the time and its use was generalized, an X-ray of its hand anywhere, just as today we do a photograph – later the damage that X-rays can cause in the body became known.
The radical exposition of the body created by X-rays gave rise to a more conceptual fascination in architecture. Through technology, intimate, invisible and very private organs became public. Buildings have been devices to defend the privacy arena, so the possibility of putting the interior of the building in the eyes of everyone was a great revolution. The buildings, with transparent walls, started to come up with the desire to get the effect of X-rays. It exploded the desire to look inside, to show everything in the eyes of others. And that is when the first “transparent houses” of history were built as a portrait of the intimate. The interior of the house was open in view of the stranger, imitating an X-ray. In other buildings, the skeleton and the skin metaphor began to be used, forming part of the exterior.
While science supports the visibility of the test and organizes our thinking the science logosa, invisibility ignites a great mystery and invisibility continues to revolutionize the dimension of the spectacular.
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