Geometry Against the Sky

Looking up in the urban night transforms our usual perspective. Apartment towers project toward the clouds like vertical masses illuminated by hundreds of anonymous windows, cutting out the firmament with strict, symmetrical lines.

In La Celestina (1499), Fernando de Rojas exclaimed before the immensity of the city: "Oh, city, city! How deaf you are to the cries of men!". Faced with the monumental scale of modern architecture, that deaf indifference of stone and concrete becomes present once again.