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Essential Approaches to the Landscape.A Conversation with Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta,by Santiago de Molina Text published in El Croquis 228 RCR 2017 2024.     Every conversation happens in a different way. This one with Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta (RCR) took place over four days in Olot, two at the end of a long spring and two in early autumn. The formal portion was recorded over several hours. But, in reality, the true conversation, the underlying one, didn't take shape during that formal portion. In the literal meaning of the words, one cannot find what...

Looking for the Realconversation with Kersten Geers and David Van Severen by Giovanna Borasi Text published in El Croquis 226 OFFICE 2017 2024. Giovanna Borasi: OFFICE's early projects were framed within the idea of rooms, literally or metaphorically. In recent years there has been a shift of scale in your work, and I'm curious about how you conceptualize this new scale. I have always thought that the Solo House was a turning point between your initial idea of rooms as a design generator and the new territory of larger projects, like the headquarters for the Swiss Radio & Television (RTS) in Lausanne, or the headquarters...

Conversation between Christian Kerez and Smiljan Radić Text published in El Croquis 224 Christian Kerez 2015 2024. Smiljan Radić: Generally, one admires another architect's work when it lies beyond our own capabilities, and outside of our own range of action or thought. That admiration turns into envy when we think we can do what another architect does. Fortunately, I can comment on your work thanks to an honourable admiration for something I am happily unable to do myself. Christian Kerez: The perspective that others do what you cannot could also mean that other people are fulfilling your dreams. I think the purest exercise for an architect is to...

Against Incontinence An Interview with Emilio Tuñón and Carlos Martínez Albornoz,by María Langarita and Víctor Navarro Published in El Croquis 223 Tuñón y Albornoz 2015 2023.     The Arnolfini Portrait, by the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, shows a rich young merchant and his wife, holding hands in a domestic interior in15th-century Bruges. A peculiar convex mirror between the couple reflects them from behind, showing us a third person in the room that we could not have otherwise seen. This specular effect, which reveals the presence of a disembodied being on the side of the viewer, influenced Velázquez in the...

A Conversation with Marina Tabassum David Chipperfield Text published in El Croquis 222 David Chipperfield 2015 2023 David Chipperfield: Marina, your work has left a lasting impression on me since I first became familiar with it through the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and, more recently, in November 2022, through your acceptance speech for the Soane Medal: you charmed everyone with your autobiographical story and the quality of your work. It also reinforced my belief that the reason why you and your work have increasing resonance &mdashbeyond your immediate context in Bangladesh&mdash is that Western architectural practice is starting to feel...