Documente Academic
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Luis Fernndez-Galiano
Pregunta: Todo el mundo sabe de tu rara vez traspasan las fronteras entre y de haber podido volar en muchos
amor por el vuelo, pero me pregunto un tipo de avin y otro. Si el piloto tipos de aviones, desde Spitfires hasta
cmo ha influido en tu arquitectura. de un avin ligero tuviera que aterri- planeadores de competicin. Se me
Cuando cumpliste 75 aos, hiciste re- zar sin motor en el campo, habra que ocurre que hay paralelos en mi acti-
cuento de todos los modelos de avin alertar con llamadas de mayday a los tud hacia la arquitectura. Semejanzas
que habas pilotado, y eran, exacta- servicios de emergencia. Sin embargo, en el sentido de que, sea por inters o
mente, 75 para un piloto de planeador se trata de pasin, muchos arquitectos e ingenie-
Respuesta: Fue una de esas indagacio- algo normal cuando se queda sin fuerza ros, como los pilotos, tienden a espe-
nes que resultan extraordinarias. Cog de sustentacin en un vuelo de larga cializarse en sus campos. Ahora me
todos mis libros de registro, en los que distancia. De igual manera, por norma doy cuenta de que en la arquitectura,
he ido anotando cada uno de mis vuelos general, los mundos del ala fija y del como en la aviacin, he traspasado las
y cada tipo de aparato, y descubr que helicptero estn bastante separados fronteras convencionales. Como dise-
haba pilotado 75 modelos de avin: desde el momento en que las destre- ador me emocionan igualmente los
ultraligeros, monoplanos acrobticos, zas que exigen son diferentes, aunque retos de la gran arquitectura pblica
biplanos antiguos, cazas militares el entorno de vuelo sea el mismo. He y la construccin de bajo coste para
y jets privados. Resulta interesante tenido la suerte de poder disfrutar de un sector amplio de la poblacin. Las
constatar que los pilotos profesionales experiencias de vuelo transversales, infraestructuras me inspiran tambin
Al cumplir 80 aos, Question: Everybody knows you love different flying machines. If the pilot fires to racing sailplanes. It crosses
Norman Foster flying, but I wonder how it has in- of a light aircraft has to make a land- my mind that there are parallels in
repasa con Luis spired your architecture. When you ing without an engine into a remote my attitude to architecture. Similari-
Fernndez-Galiano turned 75, you recollected how many field, then an emergency would be de- ties in the sense that either by virtue
las claves de su different models of aircraft you had clared with calls of mayday to alert of interest or passion, most archi-
carrera profesional piloted, and they happened to be the emergency services. However, for tects and engineers, like pilots, tend
en la sede de su exactly 75... a glider pilot that would be a normal to specialise in their chosen fields. I
fundacin en Madrid. Answer: It was one of those extraor- procedure when running out of lift on realise now that in design as well as
dinary explorations. I got all my log a long-distance cross-country flight. in aviation, I have crossed conven-
Turning 80 in June, books, in which Id noted every flight Similarly, the worlds of fixed wing tional boundaries. As a designer I am
Norman Foster in each type of flying machine, and and helicopters are normally quite just as excited by the challenges of
reviews the sources discovered I had piloted 75 different separate as the skills are different, high architecture for civic events as
and highlights of his craft microlights, aerobatic mono- even if the flight environment is the by low-cost construction for a mass
career in a dialogue planes, vintage biplanes, military same. I have been very fortunate to audience. Infrastructure also inspires
held at his foundation fighters and business jets. It is inter- enjoy an extraordinary cross-section me in the same way as buildings or
in Madrids Monte esting that professional pilots rarely of aviation experiences, to have been even furniture. So for me, flight and
Esquinza street. cross the boundaries between these able to fly so many types from spit- design are both universal activities.