IMAGES OF AGUASCALIENTES: Architecture and city

Why are buildings the way they are, and not otherwise? Architecture, due to its permanence in time and space, tends to be taken for granted, like hills or trees, whose presence, so accustomed to it we are, we only notice when they have been modified or, by chance of so many circumstances and factors, even disappeared. That is why buildings tend to be modified or used in a pragmatic way that adapts and, at the same time, causes them to adjust to new uses.
For Octavio Paz, architecture was the incorruptible witness of History, and although this applies to the great iconic buildings in every civilization, culture or community, the rest also contributes, with their testimony, to the construction of the history of the community, of the family and of each person who has been in contact with them. The various ways of doing architecture have, in the various ways of living it, an indispensable complement.
Therefore, a chronicle is outlined of what the city was and is through its built landscape, where the passage of time and its multiple occupants, users or spectators, form a very important part of understanding how architecture and the city have been modeled from someone's imagination, to then take shape through multiple hands, as well as being polished or eroded over time.