José del Carmen Palacios Aguilar: Habitar la esperanza

José del Carmen Palacios Aguilar reflects on the concept of 'inhabiting hope' as a spatial and existential condition. The essay explores how dwelling is not merely occupying built space but engaging with what remains unbuilt within ourselves. Aguilar references Luis Barragán's Casa-estudio in Mexico (1948) and Carlo Scarpa and Sergio Los's Casa Tabarelli in Italy (1969) as architectural examples that embody this tension between material construction and immaterial desire. The text argues that hope is a device that reveals what we have yet to become, and that architecture frames our gaze—whether from a moving train window, through a faded threshold, or along a maritime contour. Aguilar is an architect and writer based in Spain; the essay was published on Veredes, an architecture blog.