ABSTRACT
GPB: We are interviewing a number of architects, of which you are one, and including Michael Maltzan, Stan Allen, and Nader Tehrani, to discuss their relationship to the manifold aspects of materiality. Within this realm, there are many issues I would like to touch on: issues of scale, representation, tactility, space, geometry, ideas about pedagogy, although I’m not sure if this text draws too much into academia although almost everybody in it is in some way an academic. Again, this text is grappling with issues of materiality and contemporary architecture, and we’ve talked briey about these generational waves of history, philosophy, digital media and now arriving at a manifestation of these in materiality. What is your take on the idea of material and associated with that a process as an architectural generator? Does that resonate with you as an architect?
