ENRIC by Enrique

Abstract

I do not believe that I met Enric before 1985 although it might have been a bit earlier. It was certainly after 1980 because I had not yet travel to Europe and I do not remember him visiting California before then. I recall, however, delivering a lecture at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona in the early 90’s where he was present and where I took a picture of the audience with my brand new Cannon Photura: one of the first cameras featuring a fuzzy logic autofocus system. Our acquaintance dates, perhaps, to the time when I visited Spain to participate in the First IFSA Congress in Mallorca. I have tried to do a bit of detailed research about our initial meeting to give a more precise account of its circumstances but could not find any additional information to remove remaining ambiguities. The reader may certainly wonder why this quest for accuracy about either the author and its subject–both notorious examples of fuzzy scientists–matters at all. My obsession with this personal milestone, stems, however, from the realization that I was well along in my career before I met this remarkable man with whom I have had so many fruitful and continued interactions since our first encounter.