Architecture emerged from the earth. From its extraction and cultivation, and the effort to move its parts. And from the fascination of stacking them, putting them together and finally, celebrating, discovering and inhabiting the space. The efficiency of the location was sought, the accessibility to matter, limiting the effort. And modules that could be easily assembled were searched; tools were designed to work the land, the stones, the fibers and metals, which are also stones. When these instruments became sophisticated, the places where we could build multiplied, transporting materials and tools, developing technologies and crafts; with the architect, ordering this conglomerate... Today we maintain the same mission, but the world and science have changed, and also how we understand the scale of society and how we distribute the resources we consume.

But we continue to make buildings with the same premises. We transport materials, tools and people to the site where the building is erected and the work is done among all, always in a local way. Works are coordinated outdoors and materials and small parts are transported daily and continuously to be connected. The building is subject to availability and the local market of the place where it sits, conditioned by it. All of this has limited the introduction of the most advanced technologies of digital manufacturing and automation and robotics of the construction processes that are mostly redundant and repetitive. Something that in other industries guarantees quality, efficiency, safety and economy, in construction still seems a distant dream.