The perceptive words of Peter Salter, analysing the work of Sergison Bates architects, can equally well be applied to the philosophy of Vélez’s architecture: 

 

‘Registrations of circumstance, whether cultural, perceptual or technical, underpin judgement and set rules for construction. Such rules act as constraints and guide judgements of appropriateness, often determining detail; they conjoin the technical and physical with the perceptual and the cultural. Such rules offer a poetic to those who find an inhabitation in the building. With continual use and familiarity, a poetic manifests itself as at ease with the spatial arrangements of the building and its wear.'

 

From the essay "The Economy of Means" in Sergison Bates Architects - Brick-work: Thinking and Making (Zürich, 2005).