<Cesar>Sometimes I wonder if open architecture isn’t proceeding of an aes-
thetic of the unfinished?</Cesar>
<Usman>I think you are right, it is a really important idea. Particularly in an
open architecture system, that it is never finished, it cannot be finished, if it
were than it is not open.
This the way the city works, because they are things that are coming in here,
nothing ever finished, the city is never complete. In Cuba there is this slogan
that “the revolution has always been re-made” and I think this is kind of the
same thing, the idea is that architecture is the process, it is not the object. In fact
I think I have described architecture as a verb rather than a noun, because it is
about what people do rather than the thing that is left behind.
I really love the idea that coral is an organism, but they leave this kind of struc-
ture behind which you think is coral. If you are building an open architecture
system, you are actually not building an object, you are building something with
joints, and its ways for other things to connect into. It is always building the
thing that is going to be able to build on top of itself. </Usman>