Mateo Arquitectura Developement of the Medieval Town of Ullastret

Una de mis primeras obras, pavimentar un pueblo medieval, acabada hace muchos años. En la visión de Bernadó aparece nueva, colorista, viva. Recuerdo la visión del camino (que Bernadó recoge), construido señalando la traza continua del movimiento. Piedras que permanecen y nuevos accidentes que señalan la transformación. Aunque el suelo muestra base, como geometría y soporte, subsiste impertérrito. Josep Lluís Mateo

The project has, first and foremost, sought to explore the possibility of the coexistence of an approach that was systematic, ordering and abstract with a sensitive attention to each one of the concrete forms and places that constitute reality.

Instead of archaism, which feeds us everywhere with cobblestones in order to excite our sluggish digestion of history, instead of an ingratiating conservatism, Mateo has covered the lanes of Ullastret with a fine stratum, capable of negotiationg irregularities, and yet belonging every bit to our times.

…The atmosphere of Ullastret –that is, the peculiar sense of place- resembles a still life in which all objects appear primarily as representations of themselves. As parts of such a still life, the relics of the past cease to be merely old and instead satisfy our modern desire for the historical.