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Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Your public space for thinking architecture is now going ABROAD. every 3rd, 13th and 23rd (3x a month) Each episode on a different place but always on Spotify…and instagram and on the website arquiteturaentrevistas.com (upload your references to our website)

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#29 Parabase (SP + CH + MX), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Our 29th stop is in Barcelona (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico) and Basel (Switzerland) alongside Pablo Garrido Arnaiz. Parabase have a very keen eye for picking up things and putting them out of place. At least out of their initially proposed place...to be place in a new place though out by them. “Decontextualisation is something we can find: in almost all contemporary art piece, in most of he songs we listen to, in in writing but in architecture it is not that common.” Decontextualisation adds layers of meaning to architecture. Why can’t a sculpture be understood as a column? Why can’t a roof rotate 90 degrees and play as a facade? Maybe they can. “Architecture can be read in many ways, and it has a lot of meanings.” Sometimes, decontextualised ideas come out of absolute casualty “or maybe there is a certain hidden reason of why we have made these decisions” and post-rationalised. “The social economical system we live in…it is not circular, it is about generating and destroying, generating and destroying.” Meanwhile, they are designing a Housing project made out of, al least, 2 500 pieces dismantled out of a parking lot. We observe the phenomenon of pavilions made under the aim of biennales/triennials/festivals. Is it the case that all these events are “creating a typology of architecture” as well as “creating a typology of architects”? We wonder. Pablo says the following quote at the beginning of our conversation…but I feel like taking it of place and putting it as the final message of this episode’s brief: “To do meaningful architecture and have fun (…) basically this is the ultimate motivation of our work.” Guest: Pablo Garrido Arnaiz (Barcelona, Spain + Zurich, Switzerland + Mexico City, Mexico) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

42 min
13/10

#28 Ludwig Godefroy (MX + FR), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Our 28th stop is in Mexico (Mexico), without forgetting Normandy (France) alongside Ludwig Godefroy. What do pyramids from the pre-hispanic period and bunkers by the northern french sea have to do with each other? How can both of these come under the same architectural practice? “I have started to understand that pyramids and bunkers are kind of similar, to me.” “Humanity has been doing pyramids for 4-5 thousand years and no pyramid is looking the same as the other one. If humanity was able to do pyramids for such a long time, I can spend the rest of my life doing pyramids…this is like an endless inspiration.” “This is interesting to me because when you look at something you cannot even copy anymore, you have to reinterpret it. And then it becomes something very personal.” We talk about modernist and about how NOT (only) modernism some modernist architects were. “Its is also about what part of those architects we are using. I am not using Le Corbusier in the same way that I am using Louis Kahn.” Ludwig looks up to “the monumentality “out of Louis Kahn, “the detailing” out of Carlo Scarpa, and the “very strange magic” out of Le Corbusier “like he was inventing a new kind of space…beyond words”. He also looks up to the way of doing out of those who actually build architecture. “This is why my architecture looks a little bit rough. Because part of it is the accident.” What des an Hotel in Puerto Escondido, a Water Reservoir in Istambul and Álvaro Siza’s Fundação Nadir Afonso have in common? “In Mexico we don’t have rules, everything is possible. Which means the worst…but also the best.” Guest: Ludwig Godefroy (Mexico, Mexico + Normandy, France ) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

45 min
3/10

#27 Boltshauser Architekten (DE+CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Our 27th stop is at Boltshauser Architekten (Munich, Germany) alongside Roger Boltshauser. For Boltshauser, to have an order is a must have. “I always look for order.” But is order enough? “If I have an order, I am happy but I am not happy enough, so I try to find ways out of this order.” He even puts the words in the right order when he concludes: “Order maybe needs disorder”. Maybe. Maybe it’s not the case they are looking for a balance, but rather looking for a strong character “and strong characters are often not that balanced…but they are interesting”. Every project is part of a bigger process. Which means that some issues from a particular project might find it’s answer in an project yet to come. Sometimes “we have already built the answer but we still can’t explain it in a racional way. The brain is not ready o understand but you still think it should be the way to go”. The strange thing comes when you have to build it…you did something…and now you have to build it even tho you are aware that some questions remain unanswered. “Sometimes the brain is not there yet”. I think this is a nice way to put it. Guest: Roger Boltshauser (Munich, Germany) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Sponsor: Duo-Thermo Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

36 min
23/09

#26 EMBT (SP), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Our 26th stop is at Enric Mirrales Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT (Barcelona, SP) alongside Benedetta Tagliabue. Sometimes, EMBT are attracted by something very simple. Therefore, they allow themselves to be a little bit like a child just to permite these ideas to emerge. “Maintaining the lightness of the first idea is a very very tough work”. And that is exactly what they work for “Projects, specially if they have a very long time or have many people involved, they have a tendency of getting diluted.” “Enrique used to consider projects as alive beings, as a child. (…) So, in a way, projects need this attention as if they are people, they need to be looked after, they need to be helped in the difficult moments of their growing.” Did you know that some projects are selfish, a good kind of selfish? Did you know that some big roofs were supped to be even bigger then ended up being? Did you know that some projects are “nearly finished” and “have been nearly finished for 5 years”? “You need a lot of strength to maintain things into its pureness and beauty.” Guest: Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT (Barcelona, Spain) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

38 min
13/09

#25 SO-IL (NY, USA), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

On episode 25 we think architecture alongside SO-IL, in the voice of Summer Liu. SO-IL are constantly pushing the boundaries...literally the physical boundaries...with them we learn boundaries are not just made by walls or windows. Just when you think they've reached the limit, their next project pushes it even further. They have the right amount of madness to pursue things outside of architecture until that one moment they surrender and become into architecture form. “Once you have an intuition, its about working with the real world knowledge and then learn from the people that will eventually make the thing.” When you do so, you can find a way to make metal mesh rings relevant for architecture, against all odds (for it’s weight, for it’s scale, for it’s production…). “It’s like Avatars, they just touch each other and then see what happens there. You have to find a bridge that equalizes the two pieces of information.” “There is physicality to the abstract questions we ask.”…and it shows in every project. Guest: Summer Liu - SO-IL (New York, USA ) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

32 min
3/09

#24 Denise Scott Brown (USA), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

On episode 24th we’ll Learn from Denise, which means we’ll be learning from Las Vegas…and South Africa…and Italy…and England…and Philadelphia…and every single street and person she has passed by. “Do you know the word “serendipity”? It means something that happens unexpectedly and that could be a great thing.” We talk about how the almost demolished “Fisher Fine Arts Library” has brought together the super duo of architecture: Venturi & Scott Brown. “I would say we’ve have a big influence but Le Corbusier had an even bigger influence” Did you know there are 2 ways to think the city? Denise says the first is made by donkeys, the second is made by grids. After all, both are molded by "form, forces, and functions”. She even adds “in the end, the donkey is the functionalist.”. Actually, there is much more to function than to have the bathroom next to the bedroom. “It’s wonderful to make something beautiful. And you hope you can make it both.”. Oh Denise…what a mannerist 3. “Sometimes I want to be as beautiful as princess Margaret. You take this pretty princess, you take her a photo (…) and she is wearing diamonds…only when you get near her you get that the diamonds are celofane paper.” “Sometimes you have to break things.” Oh Denise…what a mannerist 3. I took notes of a little something: “Remember your memories as a baby, they are valuable to you in your architecture. Don’t forget those, take them with you.” I kept this advice in my pocket. I hope you do too. Learning from Denise. Guest: Denise Scott Brown, Venturi+Scott Brown (Philadelphia, USA ) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Sponsor: Vicaima Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

55 min
23/08

#23 Sergei Tchoban (DE), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Let’s travel to both Berlin (Germany) to meet the architect / drawer / collector of drawings / museum director Sergei Tchoban. Sergei Tchoban has a sery simple trick to discover architecture, he asks one simple question: “Would I want to draw this project?” In fact, he draws a lot and for a number of reasons, one of them being: to remember “to draw by hand is a way to later remember certain proportions when we are drawing our own projects”. Unlike what we might think…it might be easier to draw historical buildings than contemporary ones. In the former, any mistaken line can be understood as a detail of the facade of that building. Meanwhile, in the later, in a contemporary building you either have the line right or wrong. We talk about cats in Le Corbusier’s “Swiss Pavilion”. We talk about toilets in Nicolas Ledoux’s “La Rotunde du Parc de Monceau”. We also talk about possible connections with Piranesi’s dystopias - but with a positive intake instead - and the very curious framings of Pietro di Gonzaga. “It is a mise-en-scène, architecture is an important part of mise-en-scène”. Guest: Sergei Tchoban (Berlin, Germany) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

35 min
13/08

#22 Harquitectes (SP), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

#22 Harquitectes (SP), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD Our 22nd stop is in Sabadell, Spain alongside Harquitectes, in the voice of Josep Ricart Ulldemolins. Harquitectes have the ability to design precise things with an abstract approach and abstract things with a very precise approach. I would risk to say that, for them, it is the same to draw a brick as it is to draw temperature. Every project is a new hypothesis on constructed conditions combined with natural phenomenon. “When all of these come together, it is more then just a basic survival experience, it is something closer to the extraordinary.” In the beginning of the office, maybe, their approach to the vernacular was one of aesthetics. But they’ve gradually started to discover the hidden reasons behind the vernacular look. “We don’t produce nothing new…maybe a new experiences, maybe a new typology but…” But isn’t this producing something new?…I wonder. “When you don’t plaster the brick, you get the memory of someone placing one brick over the other. That is why our buildings never have the feeling of something new, you have, at least, the time of the construction.” Maybe vernacular is not a thing of the past, maybe we are the vernacular of tomorrow. “I hope that we are producing some new vernacular.” Guest: Josep Ricart Ulldemolins - Harquitectes (Sabadell, Spain) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Sponsor: Duo-Thermo Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.

50 min

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Your public space for thinking architecture is now going ABROAD. every 3rd, 13th and 23rd (3x a month) Each episode on a different place but always on Spotify…and instagram and on the website arquiteturaentrevistas.com (upload your references to our website)

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Ana Catarina Silva
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2021 - 2024
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