The architect’s secret, suggests a transdisciplinary dialogue between architecture and literature approaching the facts and contemporary knowledge from concepts such as precariousness, failure and unfinished. The essay announces constructive practices of minor nature that reveal possibilities for the construction of other and different folds on the production of contemporary architecture. In a territorial context increasingly urbanized and dominated by an order based on a uniform, clean, monitored and institutional management of social, economic and cultural existance, the experience narrated here brings as a guest the knowledge of the other, to share and investigate other ways of training and practice of a man-architect.