Our 2nd stop is at Nicolas Dorval-Bory Architectes atelier’s (Paris, France) alongside Nicolas Dorval-Bory himself.

Architecture is made out of very serious things. "Stone has a weight. Light has a colour temperature. Wind has a speed. But you have to be playful about them."

Nicolas confesses his passion for the physical constrains of the world. "Gravity is beautiful", he claims, "all the laws of physics have a meaning for me because they are ideas in themselves. They have a certain way of organising matter”.

Yes, architecture is very complex. "It has to contain some form of contradiction. It cannot be only one simple thing in the end. I try to explore what this contraction can be: where to expand money/where to save money, where to have a big space, where it's ok to have a small space, etc.”

Let's put it like this: reality is not made of possible things and impossible things. "When there is no money, there is no money, when something is too heavy, it is too heavy. You just have to deal with it. It's quite simple."

After all, if you accept the complexity...it's simple.

“Just because things are real, they are beautiful in themselves”

Guest: Nicolas Dorval-Bory (Paris, France)

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

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