This is my second article about the books written by Oscar Tusquets, I want to talk about your first two books. “More than debatable” his first book, immediately sparked interest, published in 1994. Four years later, in 1998, publica “everything is comparable”.
These two books are the result of the author's need to explain his particular vision of things.. It seems that the first one wasn't enough, and by verifying the success in sales, I guess he decided to write the second one. They are books written by an architect, but they are not books for architects. They are books aimed at everyone and reading them causes a change of criteria in our minds.: new points of view, common sense, praxis, the concept of play and fun.
Books contain a wealth of ideas, demonstrations, confessions, comments, hobbies, phobias, admirations, anecdotes … that Tusquets is offering to the reader in a totally free way, no ties, without mincing words, from the most transcendent and serious to the most trivial, ordinary and everyday. From your particular point of view, his tender and critical posture, sly and incorrect, ironic and independent, He breaks down all those concerns with his great common sense and humor and we discover that everything is very relative., that you can argue about everything, even, compare them.
I like the way Tusquets treats the reader., as if he were your lawyer friend, doctor or taxi driver, ignorant about aesthetic issues and who tells a joke about architects, without using architectural vocabulary. Tusquets also gives great importance to details, that may seem superfluous to us and minimizes what is labeled artistically sacred.
For more information: http://www.tusquets.com/