Architecture and creativity. Reflections on the creative process of the architectural project

Abstract

This article reflects on the process of the architecture project. In order to do so, it is based on the understanding the project’s process as a creative process, which leads us to understand the action of projecting not as a mechanical action that leads to the resolution of a problem, but as a speculative process and construction of our own thinking. Thought and creation are closely related in the project process and although the architecture is objectified through building systems and materials, can only conceive by constructing thought. This requires, on the one hand, the knowledge of guidelines, rules and principles objectivable, typical of the architectural discipline, but on the other hand, it needs, like any creative act, to develop in a dialectical relationship with another type of material that is not Specific of this discipline and which is part of a personal world, the result of our experience in the world, in which the architecture project finds in most occasions the base or owe all its wealth. Both factors have the same and decisive importance in the development of the project. However, it is the most objective, rational and easily transmissible aspects that become, in most cases, the center of attention, forgetting or leaving aside that highly subjective component that it has. It is, therefore, this aspect of the architectural project that becomes object of study in the development of this article. The purpose of this project is to unveil the creative process of the architectural project, so that it allows us to know more clearly the complexity of the project and ultimately leads us to speak about issues that we consider relevant in relation to the way of proceeding to do architecture.