Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Ana Catarina Silva
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Your public space for thinking architecture is now going ABROAD. every 1st and 3rd saturday (2x a month) Each episode on a different place but always on Spotify…and instagram and on the website arquiteturaentrevistas.com

  1. #50 AMUNT (DE), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    FEB 7

    #50 AMUNT (DE), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    This week, we travel to Aachen and Stuttgart to meet AMUNT, founded in 2009 by Björn Martenson, Sonja Nageland Jan Theissen. AMUNT reinvent the existing. They pay attention to the quirky, the overlooked, the oddly specific. “There are ideas in these quirky things, that’s why we collect them.” But collecting is only the beginning. For AMUNT, these observations become operative: “to transfer means the possibility to bring something new to the vocabulary of architecture”. I agree. Each project begins with context - not as something given, but as something constructed. “Everybody can create their own context… you design what you think is your context.” This openness also allows for letting go: “at some point, it becomes the client’s project on the inside, and we let go”. Wise. Constraints play a central role. “We like to take benefits out of constraints… these constraints form a kind of character”. Within limits, they find freedom. “It helps you to find, in the sea of possibilities, a solution that is not just based on taste (…) If we have at least 2 reasons for something, then it’s really good”. In the end, everything has a character: imperfect, specific, quietly alive…waiting to be found. Guests: Björn Martenson + Sonja Nagel + Jan Theissen (Aachen + Stuttgart, Germany)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comSpotify: Arquitetura Entre VistasInstagram: @arquiteturaentrevistas #ArquiteturaEntreVistasABROAD #ArquiteturaEntreVistas #AMUNT #ArchitecturePodcast #ContemporaryArchitecture #GermanArchitecture #DesignProcess #ArchitecturalThinking #ReinventingTheExisting #ArchitecturalContext #ArchitectureLovers

    46 min
  2. #49 Christ & Gantenbein (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    12/13/2025

    #49 Christ & Gantenbein (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    Today, we travel to Zurich to meet Emanuel Christ, who, together with Christoph Gantenbein, founded Christ & Gantenbein in 1998. With them, I learned that “form is communication”. As Aristotle would say it as a syllogism: “Form is language. Language is communication. Therefore, form is communication.” But can we truly communicate if we invent our own language? Or if we aim for anonymity in the forms we use? For Emanuel Christ, a good building speaks, “a good building speaks with other buildings; a good building speaks about other buildings.” Architecture, he argues, is a civic art, “it belongs to everybody. So please speak a language that can be understood by the majority of people, and at the same time, make it surprising, make it fresh, make it original.” “Form is never an isolated thing per se.” It is typological, compositional, tectonic - a synthesis of thought and construction. Each project contributes to the evolution of a type: “the best projects have a clear typological principle that produces exceptions and frictions.” For Christ, architecture is dialogue between past and present, the general and the specific, the universal and the local. Always familiar, yet always new. Guest: Emanuel Christ (Zurich, Switzerland) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

    1h 10m
  3. #48 Atelier Kempe Thill (NL/FR/CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    11/15/2025

    #48 Atelier Kempe Thill (NL/FR/CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    This week, let’s travel to Rotterdam, Paris and Zurich to meet André Kempe and Oliver Thill, two German architects who founded Atelier Kempe Thill in 2000. Talking about simplicity can be a complex task — but today, we take on that challenge. For Kempe and Thill, architecture is “the creation of order in the world of chaos.” “The world is already too complex,” they say, “and a piece of architecture can create a moment of order.” Yet simplicity, for them, is not effortless — “it takes a lot of effort to do something that at the end looks rather simple.” Typology stands at the core of their thinking — “in typology there is a lot of collective knowledge.” The plan, followed by the section, becomes a tool for clarity. Their architecture resists spectacle: facades are rigorous, interiors quiet, and repetition reveals rather than hides logic. Ultimately, “there is an order — but one that can always be a little bit stretched.” Between reason and softness, their work searches for balance — between the ideal and the real. Guests: André Kempe + Oliver Thill (Rotterdam, Paris, Zurich)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comSpotify: Arquitetura Entre VistasInstagram: @arquiteturaentrevistas

    51 min
  4. #47 Enrico Sassi (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    11/01/2025

    #47 Enrico Sassi (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    Let’s travel to Lugano, Switzerland, to meet Enrico Sassi — architect, landscaper, teacher of Urban Design at USI in Mendrisio, and editor of “archi”, a Swiss magazine of architecture and urban planning. From his studio in Lugano, he navigates the blurred lines between inside and outside, architecture and landscape. “It’s not so important to make a distinction between inside and outside,” he says. What matters most is to “produce good living spaces.” For Sassi, “space is our specificity,” and materials are alive with possibilities: “each material has an expression… you can take out energy or beauty or interest from each material.” Nothing is ever wasted: “you don’t throw away a piece of stone. Keep. Keep because it is always useful.” His work unfolds like an archaeological reading, where “you show stratas” and let the story be read over time. Theory is important, but it cannot remain abstract: “if we don’t have something in our head we are not able to do something with our hands. But only theory… it’s theory.” Construction itself is part of the story, and “you need to be ready to change your mind during the process because the story is moving and new things appear.”  Maybe it’s an opportunity, it is not a problem. Even bridges, pavilions, and infrastructures carry care and emotion: “color is adding joy to a piece,” he says, recalling a bridge touched by blue and yellow. “We don’t expect a bridge to transmit happiness.” But maybe we should. Guest: Enrico Sassi (Lugano, Switzerland) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

    44 min
  5. #46 Conen Sigl Architekten (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    10/18/2025

    #46 Conen Sigl Architekten (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    Let’s travel to Zurich to meet Maria Conen and Raoul Sigl, working together since 2011 under the name Conen Sigl Architekten. Their practice is rooted in curiosity, precision, and a constant questioning of how architecture belongs - to its place, to its people, and to its stories. “How is this building grounded in the neighbourhood?” they ask. Every project begins with observation - reading the place carefully, understanding “what do I look at in this project?” and leaving space for multiple answers. “Maybe there is not one answer, maybe there are a lot of answers.” Drawing plays a special role - not as documentation, but as reflection. “Drawing as a synthesis is more to keep in mind our thoughts for the project.” These synthesis drawings are not about technical detail, but about memory and pleasure - “the things you are most interested in.” Architecture, they say, should be precise yet open, allowing life to unfold in unexpected ways. “Not always the best materialisation or the best concept of colours makes a good space. Sometimes it’s the people.” Beauty, after all, is “so multilayered” - it shifts, resonates, and tells a different story each time you look. Guests: Maria Conen + Raoul Sigl (Zurich, Switzerland)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram @arquiteturaentrevistas

    44 min
  6. #45 Studio David Klemmer (AT/CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    10/04/2025

    #45 Studio David Klemmer (AT/CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    Let’s travel to Zurich to meet David Klemmer - an Austrian architect working in Switzerland, running his own office since 2017. In 2022, he founded Studio Diode, an independent satellite dedicated to digital images, where he acts as a digital photographer, constructing and staging virtual portraits of architecture. Two poles define his practice — one introverted, one extroverted — both essential. David understands architecture as an instrument. “An instrument is something that cannot work on its own. It needs a human being.” And like instruments, his buildings are expressive, their structures “exposed, not hidden.” From guitars to satellites, he finds resonance in objects that connect the intimate and the distant. “Musical instruments are the closest things to us… satellites are the most far away.” Yet both shape how we perceive and imagine space. “When I work in 3D, I feel an astronaut.” For David Klemmer, reality is not absolute. “Plans, sections, or even conversations can reveal something I cannot experience when I go there.” Drawing, image-making, and design merge as acts of understanding. Guest: David Klemmer (Austria + Zurich, Switzerland)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram @arquiteturaentrevistas

    42 min
  7. #44 AMAA (IT), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    07/19/2025

    #44 AMAA (IT), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    Let’s travel to Venice and Arzignano to meet Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampasso, founding partners of AMAA, a “Collaborative Architecture Office For Research and Development” as they call it. They have recently stated working form New York, as they thought that would be a good pretext to be closer to Donald Judd’s aura. “Instagram fully fills our mind, so it’s not easy to select”. Therefore, they’ve developed their own toolbox, the "AMAA box” - which they progressively disclosure on throughout the episode. “To have a proper selection is important, so we do our selection of a lot of things”. At the end, “all these influences create a language.” There are 3 main pieces: a site, an architect and a client.  “All these 3 things need to work together”. “To be trustable with a client you need to be a storyteller, thats the first thing. But you also need to be humble and practical. (…) The client needs to be with us for the research, for the process, for the after”. The process is good, but the after is the best part, they claim. Let’s not for get about the site, as that is the place where they best express their way of thinking. “We really love to dirty up the situation”. On one hand, “we need to be thinkers but at the same time we need to be builders”. On the other hand, “from a functional problem you can find a way to be also aesthetic”. What goes around comes back around. “The reference is giving to you the power of detail, the power of keeping up your way of thinking and your intuition.” Guest: Marcello Galiotto + Alessandra Rampazzo  (Venice + Arzignano, Italy) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

    56 min
  8. #43 Iván Bravo (CL), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    07/04/2025

    #43 Iván Bravo (CL), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

    Let’s travel to Santiago, Chile, to meet Iván Bravo whom back in 2002 has founded Iván Bravo Arquitectos, now alongside his associate architect Martin Rojas. Once upon a time Iván noticed he was really interested in the process of the work…even more than its outcome. Polemic. Isn’t it curious that “in art, ”obra” is the final work” (obra de arte /masterpiece) meanwhile, “in architecture, “obra” is the process” (construction site). “It was really interesting to understand that one final work, which we call “obra”, is all the process, including the end”, he says. But can an “obra” (as a construction site) even become an “obra” (masterpiece)? After all, their clients “are not clients that want architecture, they just want a house.” Maybe this is all about getting “lebre por gato”. In other words, “to get something better than you expect to”. Maybe its about cousins who spot Toblerone’s in architecture projects. “We are constantly mixing rationality with intuition, of course.” “The publication of an architecture, the final photos, are a fetichism of the whole process.” Guest: Iván Bravo (Santiago, Chile) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

    32 min
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