Boris Brorman Jensen met with Farshid Moussavi at Harvard Graduate School of Design to discuss the production of added value and how architectural practice, research and teaching, influence and stimulate each other. Boris Brorman Jensen: This issue of CONDITIONS is focusing on possibilities to expand the ambitions beyond the given assignment. So the question...
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Interview with Farshid Moussavi
Interview with Håkan Danielsson
Håkan Danielsson – business developer Skanska Commercial Development Nordic. Conditions: In relation to your profession, what do you consider a compromise to be?Håkan Danielsson: I think compromise may have a bad connotation. However, most often I believe that when we develop projects, if you have to take many issues into consideration, you end up...
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Sustainability as an Aesthetic Problem
- article by Gerard Reinmuth“The very concept of sustainability has been colonised by big capital and turned into another huge marketing operation to guarantee the reproduction of corporate profits. The idea of sustainable design is locked into this paradigm, where solutions are constrained to areas where big business can make money, almost exclusively limited...
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Interview with Gert Wingårdh
Conditions: What is, in your opinion, a compromise?Gert: When you don’t do it exactly as you want it. It’s that simple (he-he). Compromises are extremely common and are also part of a healthy discussion. Sometimes you don’t know exactly what objectives you and your client want. Usually the compromise has to do with costs....
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Interview with Jan Christiansen, City Architect of Copenhagen
Conditions: What is a compromise in your opinion? Jan: In my opinion, the art of architecture is dependent on borders and a lot of compromises. Architecture is not a free-form art. It is a kind of art where you have to make compromises on the genius loci, economy and everything else. Compromise is to...
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Fake Interview with Bjarke Ingels
BIG’s exhibition “Yes is More – An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution”, currently touring around Denmark, reveals how many of BIG’s projects are the result of a glamorous compromise: “Architecture is never triggered by a single event, never conceived by a single mind, and never shaped by a single hand. Neither is it the direct...
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Interview with Sou Fujimoto
By Anders Melsom and Pawel Druciarek Conditions: What are your ideas about architecture in relation to nature, concerning copies and interpretations of nature? You have written about primitive futures and primary needs, how do you see it as valid to use nature and a primitive approach in architecture? Sou Fujimoto: Recently I have been...
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Doubt as a Strategy
Interview with Lars Ramberg According to the artist Lars Ramberg, the understanding of doubt is very different in Germany than in Scandinavia and especially in Norway. If you in Norway say that you are a little bit in doubt you are saying that you have already moved over to the negative side, you have...
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Evolution in the Age of Crisis
by Fernando Donis “…Are you a modern architect Mr. Kracklite?No more modern than I should be.No more modern than Boullée would you say?…”Peter Greenaway – The Belly of an Architect Ludwig Wittgenstein questioned the relationship between meaning and the use of language. He highlighted the fact that conceptual confusions surrounding its use is one...
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Architecture as Political Practice
Roemer van Toorn in conversation with Markus Miessen RvT The good news is that politics is on everybody lips, the bad news is that politics is about everything and nothing nowadays. Ten years ago a New York fashion line was born named Theory. Buzzwords of the cultural elite – like the return to the...
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