PRESENTATION

WALKING ARCHITECTURE'S SOUL

First, welcome to the world from my perspective. I'm Ann, architect, landscape designer, photographer, and mainly a design enthusiast. Since I was a little girl, everything about design has moved my world. I have appreciated details and all the things that make life easier or more beautiful. I have found the beauty of the world through traveling because I deeply believe that every place has something to teach you, not just in knowledge but in experiences, and for me, it's the best way to be present while you grow.

CORE

ART

The goal of Walking Architecture is to democratize art, to pay tribute to artists who have taught us to see the world through their works, and to make us feel, we are a little closer to our life references.
Marcel Proust, in his novel In Search of Lost Time, argues that only through art can we step beyond ourselves and see the world through others' eyes. Whether it's a painting, poem, or film, art reveals the artist's vision, and by comparing it with our own, we deepen our understanding and broaden our view of the world.
In one of his letters, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that painters understand nature, love it, and teach us to see. He said, "Find beauty in everything you can, marvel at the world," and this is exactly what I aim for.
To use for a moment someone else's glasses to understand the world and to realize that art is not a luxury; it is a way we heal each other. Art, in any of its expressions, starts a dialogue with someone you've never met but who has felt the same. Seeing or making any kind of art is a lifeline we have to understand our own existence.

Why walking?

Walking is a primary act of survival, a vital attitude, and a philosophy of life. The experience of walking without intention, just to observe reality, brings you to the present moment and combines the movement which generates vitality with just the right speed to be aware of now, allowing you to explore and perceive the world.
As an architect, I recognize the city as a scene of relationships, interaction, and the creation of social life. The city holds places full of stories, meanings, and perceptions.
From my point of view, the city can be lived and inhabited in countless ways,
but walking is the ideal action that allows you to see things from different
perspectives. Walking gives you a moment to pause, observe everyday life, the small fragments of stories, feel the essence of the city, the anonymous faces, the urban dynamics, and life.
As a photographer, I believe in the importance of documenting moments and details. Photography allows you to observe with an anthropologist's spirit, to see without interacting with anyone, to feel free and anonymous, to be present, perceiving the context and suggesting new forms of visual meaning from the image. Behind the camera, you can let the landscape and the city surprise you with their nuances.
Walking, stopping, taking photographs, imagining, dreaming, being a flâneur, a reflective walker who stops and observes the everyday life of the city, being that character who
blends into the landscape, admires the sublime, and lets the city become the protagonist, capturing a specific moment of that object susceptible to change.

The invitation is to have references, consume art, create art, seek the beauty in the world you walk through, experience what is within you, and see how the context transforms you and transforms itself, as traveling the world changes and expands our view of it.