Beyond the romantic content often ascribed to its political-social aspect, resistance is an ambivalent condition. Because it depends on an external entity, it is not an autonomous condition; that is, it only appears in relation to an outside. It does not exist without something to resist. It is an opposition to forces that, as such, implies taking a stance from which that opposition is exercised. Thus, there can be resistance to aspects as disparate as the status quo or change.
To complicate matters further, resistance is also a condition that appears in many fields. Architecture is one of them. For example, a building can offer physical resistance to external conditions such as an earthquake, the climate, or even pollution. In fact, a building is a tool that not only helps us resist nature but, due to its primarily static condition, is also a tool of resistance against the passage of time.
