MEMORY

Memory is the main tool with which reason and, by extension, the human being works. With memory, man can do everything, or almost everything. Without memory we can do nothing, and less than nothing. We humans have memory, understanding, and will. That is what we learned as children. This was referred to in scholasticism as the powers of the soul. An architect, a good architect, a wise architect stores information and knowledge in his memory so that, when suitably processed, he can design with rigor. Memory has the capacity to supply that distilled, processed information to architects, so that we do not invent gunpowder. Ruins are the material, indelible traces, and the memory of the architecture that stood there once upon a time. These traces are the embodiment of the architects' ideas with exact measurements.