Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

• #39 Neiheiser Argyros (EL+UK), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  In this episode we travel to both Greece (EL) and London (UK), where we can Neiheiser Argyros, this time under the voice of Ryan Neiheiser. Repetition and diference is a long-time interest of theirs. They don't bother looking at things over and over again, “there is something about repetition that might lead to something unexpected”. However, in other to find the unexpected “you have to completely invest yourself in an idea and totally believe that it can exist in the world”. “A big part of finding new ideas is about copying interesting ideas”. Interesting, I might copy this idea myself. Once we explore the idea of “reuse”, Ryan brings a new, and more precise, word to the table: spolia. “We have been trying to make use of the word “spolia” to nuance the idea of “reuse”.” And they will keep on doing it over and over again.Guest: Ryan Neiheiser + Xristina Argyros, Neiheiser Argyros (EL + UK)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram@arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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• #38 Atelier Local (PT), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Next stop: Portugal, to meet Maria Rebelo and João Paupério, whom together in 2019, have founded Atelier Local. Have you ever though about gosht writing applied to architecture? Maybe its more common than we think. What is style? Maybe, “style is what allows you to go further (…) if you repeat a same way of addressing an issue, your mind gets liberated to address other issues. “Your own limitations travel with you wherever you go. Maybe that is what style is. (…) that’s the only way you know how to solve a problem.” “Style is a limitation”. Maybe. “Once you start to reflect upon that, you start to use it more properly.” For sure. “We know a little bit about Palladio but we also know a little bit about ugly kitchens from our grandmothers.” The real question here is: how local is Leroy Merlin?Guest: Maria Rebelo + João Paupério , Atelier Local (Valongo, PT)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram@arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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• #37 WOJR (USA), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Next stop, Massachusetts (USA) were we met Willian O’Brien Jr, who has been developing his architectonic vision under the name WOJR since 2013. They understand their work more as an intellectual project that has a kind of business by-product. “We think of architecture first and foremost as an act of cultural production”, they say. “To rehearse” is probably one of their favourite activities. They rehearse ideas over and over, as they are “hoping to find an aspect of that project that helps [them] do something that [they] wouldn’t do otherwise”. “What is unique about a thing becomes the lens which all decisions get made.” Metaphorically speaking, something very similar to pealing an onion and finding a new layer every time. “We hope those ideas find their way into other projects.” But is there space for “rehearsing” during construction?  ”I don’t think there is a 1-to-1 correspondence between the visualisation and the built work. One is aspirational and projective and other is, let’s say, much more opportunistic and discoverable. “That’s something I have been thinking about a lot. What is the status of the visualisation once the work is built.” Nevertheless, keep in mind that “it can be iterated, it can be rehearsed.”Guest: William O’Brien Jr. , WOJR (Massachusetts, USA)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram@arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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• #36 E2A (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Next stop, Zurich (CH) alongside Piet Eckert, whom together with Wim Eckert founded E2A.  Can a building ever be abstract? Can an idea ever be concrete? What about a model, how abstract can a model be? “The abstraction of a thought leads to an architectural strategy, we can produce a model that keeps this abstraction.” With such a wide range of thoughts…how to keep our focus? Piet says he as “found  a way to deal with many conditions and not have the obligation to always think everything through.” He explains it further: “for example, a plan, is more abou how a space is organised; a model is about how a structure is creating synthesis; an image, for example, can accentuate our attention a space.” It’s about method and about methodically taking the best out of it. Nevertheless, for E2A, it’s important to emphasise that "the built work is always the synthesis, otherwise we have done something really wrong”. “Its about definition and tolerance. It’s about defining the world but making it free to be discovered.” “I am not trying to limit things. I am trying to enable.” “Liberty itself is not a quality.”Guest: Piet Eckert, E2A (CH)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram@arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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• #35 FELT (BE), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Today we travel to Ghent (Belgium) to meet with Jasper Stevens and Karel Verstraenten whom, together have founded FELT architecture & design, back in 2014. FELT favors the 'in between', creating objects and projects that oscillate between between architecture and design, scale and scaleless, between function the fiction. They “see scenography as an architectural commission”, what about vice-versa? Sometimes they re-scale buildings to stool-size, other times, they skate stools to building-size. “This exercise of re-scale is something we do with almost everything we make.” They believe in the importance of not ending up “with a grey, basic architecture”. Are you a believer as well? “We are liars. We like to lie. We lie to tell a different story”. As it should. Sometimes it is about adding sprinkles on top of frozen yogurt. (Yes, you need to listen to the episode to understand this reference.) “There is a reference for those who wan to see it."Guest: Jasper Stevens + Karel Verstraeten (Ghent, BE)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram@arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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