Our 13th stop is in Porto (PT), alongside Elói Gonçalves, and in Zurich (CH), where António Mesquita is currently at.

A fast and furious architecture, not just because…but because the fast pace has excelled the competition, fast pace is eminent anywhere. Things are always very fast, as so, the faster you adapt…the better you keep up. “Change and adaptability is part of our genetics”, they claim.

What we might expect from them is exactly what they expect from materials: António and Elói are amused by materials that have unlimited possibilities - “materials that are always ready”, as they call it - as so, unlimited possibilities is what they explore.

After all, “Architecture is like this...It is about being always ready”. “We don’t know what is going to happen in the the afternoon or the next day or in the construction site. So, being always ready is kind of the only possibility.”

Let’s picture, in our minds, the beginning of a project: the client has a plot and a program and maybe some ideias; the architects also have some ideias in their mind.

One thing is for sure: none of these is what the project is going to be.

“We have no idea of what we are going to do, but we are sure that we are going to find a lot of things.”

“Architecture is like chocolate for people that like chocolate, you could eat it forever.”

Guest: Elói Gonçalves + António Mesquita (Porto, Portugal + Zurich, Switzerland)

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

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