64|A FONDO We can also learn a few things from sculptors and the way they mold space. The purpose of a sculpture is to move, send a message, communicate something... The sculptor not only works with the piece that he is shaping as an object; he also molds the space. When it is a piece in a small scale it is harder to perceive this but when the work is at a larger scale the sculpture is indistinguishable from the architecture. The only difference is that for the sculptor, space does not need to be functional, it is more visceral that in architecture; it has no purpose in itself. Those are more manifest spaces, more pure spaces. In architecture space is everything. It is like a large sculpture in which the scale prevents perceiving the surrounding space; since we do not see it, we think it is not there, it does not exist. Architecture is the most complex form of art because besides being art it has to be functional. In the quest for this functionality is where many buildings lose their essence as artistic elements. Moreover, for an architectural work to exist there has to be a previous order from a developer and in the construction process there should be no conflict of interests between the three main characters: the developer, who wants to secure a product in a period of time and at a price; the builder, who is after a profit and the architect, who is a crazy dreamer that wants to create his dream and defends, like a medieval knight, his ideas which no one understands because the other agents of the construction are submerged in a fight for economic interests that have nothing to do with the quality of the building. These circumstances are not found in the other form of arts which is why it is easier to find in them art in itself, uncontaminated and pure. Architecture builds a space that has the mission of motivating, of compelling the people that inhabit it to feel at peace in its interiors because this is the only way of carrying on the different tasks and occupations that life sets for us. Lights and shadows. Drawings of light. By understanding that what is most valuable of light is quality and not quantity I am positioning myself on the side of the artist; that as an architect I feel myself and “I am myself” ( in the words of Fernando Pessoa5). After years spent allowing myself to be seduced by those who treat art and light in a very poetic manner: photographers,