Elaine Molinar joined founding partner Craig Dykers at Snøhetta's very beginning, when they won their first competition for the Alexandria Library in 1989. Since then, the firm has grown true to its mountainous namesake, expanding to four offices worldwide and winning pivotal cultural projects in architecture and design, among them the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, SFMOMA's expansion, the entrance pavilion at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, and Norway's new banknotes.
They both joined me on One-to-One to talk about their future hopes for the firm, Snøhetta's office culture, and their advice for working with your significant other (they've been a couple since the firm began).
Listen to One-to-One #27 with Craig Dykers and Elaine Molinar of Snøhetta:
Shownotes:
What Craig Dykers is listening to: the Ngozi Family, Jimmy Smith and Machito. Listen to the Ngozi Family below:
Elaine is reading: City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel
Craig is reading: What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
The New Yorker profile of Snøhetta
The film Love and Friendship, based on the novel Lady Susan by Jane Austen:
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Thank you all for the interesting podcasts, they are very much appreciated.
I have a couple of questions for Elaine and Craig:
Sønhetta are one of the few companies producing work at the highest level in both architecture and visual communication, was this an initial ideal or an additional design function added to the core of the practice?
In what way has the practice enabled cross discipline interaction between graphic design and architecture specialists and could this be applied to similar design–led organisations?
Cheers.
How do they pronounce their firm ?
@TeenageWasteland, from Snøhetta's website: "Snøhetta (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsnøːˌhɛtɑ])"
Interesting podcast. The founder strikes me as a bit pretentious (not that there's anything wrong with that) and the founder's wife sounds sort of clumsy and insecure. But that's how these artist types tend to be
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