The high priest of parametricism, Patrik Schumacher, endures our personality quiz and talks cacti, Google, and everyone's favorite British-sculptor, Anish Kapoor.
Who is your favorite living architect?
Rem Koolhaas
Who is your favorite dead architect?
Zaha Hadid, but if this is too obvious: Frei Otto
How would you describe the personality of your practice?
We are professional enthusiasts, addicted to creating beauty.
What is your practice's main weakness?
We want to take on everything, nearly indiscriminately, and give everything all the time, without much concern for our financial viability.
What is the trait you appreciate most in a building?
Innovativeness as revealed in a sense of strangeness and (a strange) beauty as an intuitively compelling indicator of soundness and appropriateness.
What is the trait that you deplore most in a building?
Superficial iconicity clamoring too much to be a sensation or spectacle.
What is the trait you most appreciate in an architect?
Originality, risk taking, courage and seriousness of purpose.
What is the trait that you most deplore in an architect?
Vanity
What is your favorite type of project to work on?
Speaking generally: mixed-use complete in dense urban contexts. My dream project: Google headquarters/campus.
What does architectural happiness mean?
The thrill of opening a new building.
What does architectural misery mean?
Yet another aborted design effort.
Where would you most like to build (where you haven't already)?
In Tokyo
What is your favorite color?
No comment
What is your favorite flower?
Cactus
What is your favorite bird?
Owl
Who is your favorite poet?
Marcel Proust, if he counts as a poet?
Who is your favorite artist?
Anish Kapoor
When do you lie?
Only when the complexity of the situation leaves me no other choice and a lie is the lesser evil.
What talent would you most like to have?
Musical talent
What architectural strategies do you most overuse?
The oblique
How would you like to die?
In bed watching a beautiful movie
6 Comments
cactus - no more questions your honor
What is the trait you appreciate most in a building?
Innovativeness as revealed in a sense of strangeness and (a strange) beauty as an intuitively compelling indicator of soundness and appropriateness.
What is the trait that you deplore most in a building?
Superficial iconicity clamoring too much to be a sensation or spectacle.
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One and the same ...
What is the trait that you deplore most in a building?
Superficial iconicity clamoring too much to be a sensation or spectacle.
BRO...
jajajajajaja.
Well, their buildings are iconic but not superficial, so he's got a point there.
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