Our 6th stop is at Jo Taillieu Architecten (Ghent , BE) alongside Jo Taillieu.

His architecture is as an open engine as every project deals with the logics of construction right from the beginning and might be even left exposed. “Every project has to be a new research” and these discoveries should be left in plain sight. I suspect that if he was a doctor he would easily do open heart surgeries and I am not sure he would sew up the skin again.

Throughout our conversation we realised it is all about precision. Precision I the key word. “Sometimes you have to be precise in the definition to accept the openness of the outcome. But if you are precise in giving the tools to make it, it can lead to a very precise outcome.” But how to do it, we ask? Jo says: “skipping conventions is extremely important to be precise”.

“To see what is there is one of the most important steps on the design process” but the question in architecture is not to solve problems but to create opportunities. Or is it?

One thing is for sure, “architecture is a process and finding the interest in that you are doing is the only interesting outcome.”

Guest: Jo Taillieu (Ghent , BE)

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

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