The teacher and researcher of the Department of Architecture and Building Technology Patricia Reus yesterday entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Santa María de la Arrixaca in Murcia with an investiture speech in which she remembered and praised the work of the French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand, responsible for furniture and interiors in Le Corbusier’s studio.
“Charlotte Perriand left behind a colossal legacy of furniture and buildings. She was, above all, a woman who wanted to inhabit the world fully: with commitment, with respect for nature and, as she often repeated to her daughter Pernette, with a fan-like, broad, attentive and open gaze. Absolutely convinced that, to create with depth and relevance, it is necessary to cultivate full attention and a sensitivity that encompasses both the scale of the details and that of the whole,” Reus detailed during her intervention.
The professor at the UPCT School of Architecture and Building expressed her “deep gratitude to the members of the Architecture section who considered my profile as optimal to fill this vacancy and to all those who endorsed my appointment with their vote.”
“It is a recognition that gives meaning to all the work one does,” said the researcher when her admission to the Royal Academy was announced, a cultural institution “that I have respected and followed for years” and in which she hopes to contribute to its “modernization and feminization” with the aim that “new ways of thinking take hold,” she stated.
