ABSTRACT
Marc Fornes is a registered Architect DPLG and founder of THEVERYMANY, a New York based studio engaging art and architecture through the filter of systematic research and development into applied computer science and digital fabrication. In the spring of 2015 Jason Johnson interviewed Marc in his Brooklyn studio, surrounded by prototypes and drawings that represented a catalog of nearly ten years of work across a number of scales. What follows is an edited transcript of a far-ranging conversation on the topic of the importance of iteration, failure, and specificity in the design process. Jason Johnson explains the projects are the pattern of the actual voids in the material which perform not just as outcomes of the generative process, but as elements reinforcing the overall design. Marc replied that they have become very important to the process because they give people many advantages to constructability.
