Fellini

In a book by and about Fellini (making a film – Einaudi) his reflections return, even more precisely, on the difference between the film conceived and the film made.
This reflection allows me to build a bridge with the practice of architecture.
When Fellini talks about the conceived film, he even alludes to the indistinct dream vision, in which a face is not a real face, for example, but the sensation of a face.
In the complex translation of this aspect into reality, a bloody struggle takes place with real faces, with their epidermis, pores, moles, etc… to be able to restore that impression, and the necessity, beyond the ordeals during which however, one tries to impose one’s being “director” of the practical operations that underlie the implementation process. To then confront reality, accepting it.

It is interesting that it can work like this in architecture too. I believe it was, to give an example that concerns me, with the entrance to the S+V house, in which something imagined in a vague way then had to take shape and substance. I remember the small trauma in the difference between the colors of the solid walnut of the vertical sticks and the veneered one of the box above.
But on the one hand, as mentioned, this project must be accepted, certainly fighting as much as possible, but on the other it can only happen in the relationship between an idea and its comparison with reality.
If not, it’s writing (and it becomes literature if the writing is of quality)
And the realization also includes those events that you ideally cannot predict (the argument with the owner, the rule that prevents you from taking action, you wanting to bring a stranger to the construction site, the wrong material that cannot be returned…)