AIRES MATEUS x PIONIRA: Manuel Aires Mateus on the resistance of a building

[Music] [Music] sometimes it's difficult to find out what is your first memory tandem architecture because victor's connects to everything so could be the moment you see somebody dancing be the moment you see special space could be a particular material that you have a new memories touch with you were a child the regions where we came from it's an instance of course one of the things that sees the sales is that to be global we have to be local and I understand that feeling so we have we always have to put our starting point as a way of starting a project or describing the project yes these two approaches same types we are global because in a way I could - first of all knowledge is will open there's a lot of influences around but at the same times you use you operate with your own memories because architecture is very personal it is about it's about in the end of the day it's about you it's about your feeling I'm grateful to have time to work I'm going to have time to sketch I'm ready to have problems to operate and of course I have a good life so I'm great at what I would love but at the same time I work a lot you know in one way this is a profession that you do you do because you cannot avoid it I'm always with a huge what are the things that I absolutely sure he said you cannot have be sure about yourself because we do project results we do projects try in each problem trying to find what it is trying to find new approaches trying to find relation to the reality what's important in the product in a way as a as a mental process it's to forget everything you've ever done come to the kind of a zero candle approach to the process unless you stature every time your project if you start to have a way of doing it have an image kind of strategy to solve projects it's not an investigation in terms of creative anymore it's markups it's a bribe this is all research is about and it's about taking advantage of process projects one by one working on a specific question and try to take off everything from each one of the questions and read to go deep in that question so we have two adults I have got that I've always loved and that was this couch and so some feeling of a panic of being finished you know one day and but bigger it is fantastic because it's so connect to life and you can connect anything to architecture you connect people proper the most important connection most interesting connections to connect with people that you know people that you remember people people jump up people this idea of each person is unique like every project is unique services this is something that is very strong we connect your collaborators you connect your clients occurring at the same time in connectivity but you connect also all day another sculpture into the books that you read films that you see that the tricks that you make everything that you do you are able to connect to your your activity as an architect and it's very important to do that and it's very important to that freedom is very the anything reach so you don't you never get ev ideas because I study so I study the problems I analyze the problems the situations necessity of transformation it is a starting point of a project place education possibilities the clients the situation the situation so every season everything about us because when we talk about inspiration we talk about subsidises that coming it's or subsidies it's coming from this knowledge e-stop coming from a kind of idea road the romantic idea of being somewhere so sometimes I have to be allowed to make the cities that the project needs but this could be the difference used to be you know smoking smoking and it's very powerful so we always react to the reality and the reality is changing so active is changing because we actively out the actual problem that are actually coming out in every moment to be more important or determinant in a particular case what I would like to think about our work is that we are really working for forward the people so we are trying to establish connection to the people not only through the possible use that they can make about what we do but also about their memories so the idea of sustainability a call of ecology a simple now center for the world's was held to be architecture so and and because it became so important in our lives they also have to be responded in terms of architecture the problem is only in terms of architecture we are normally talking about sustainability not by the point of view of architecture but a point of view of engineering so we are always saying about saving energy this idea of ecological idea of resistance in terms of energy or in terms of performance in terms of the buildings but it's not the world over there so this is the role of an engineer the role of architecture is a very important role but it's a message that you know from since ages these diseases or buildings we are now starting intervention in a comment from the third century that have been already everything since then and we are going to make us slightly interventional same total quantity of intervention and we're gonna adapt it to new functions and this resistant instrument and when we have been designed for specific functions this is a time that is finished so now we have to design for to decide to create structures that are open to possibilities and I feel that it's this we have to face this idea that you cannot continually being designed buildings that are adapted to a function that they lose the sexuality in the 10 years to you but we have to create structures that are that they have to exist and last when it is about select what is important in every reality and add something that could put in value but surrender and bring father to this intervention from what's already deserts combination of bring and peak value from a reality is to work it's the work of an architect is to work on an of an intervention and I think that we have to enact the same facilities this has been the stoical way of doing you imagine sort of you startled me I'm not going to the moments and the structure that they beat me if you pick a normal gothic color that have been transformed several times of the Renaissance moment they are classic and have been always added things and the selection have been true or it could be in a way and try to add always founding don't try to select it was best and remove what was not so the interesting good architecture is we like that it's about itself so good architecture it's one it's clever and where it's climbing now it's sustainable what fiber now respect the world what is going on now have all these values so good architecture it's one it's quite enough so it's better for our philosophy there's one scene in this very important was was listening dear the day that Nassau it was talking about its relation with the students he say the same thing that I say to my students you have to meet forget the rest just suppose my advice was to read for the course I would say philosophy it's why I feel that it's mine it's what I would love to go it's bad enough you know you

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Published: Thu May 28 2020