Our 29th stop is in Barcelona (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico) and Basel (Switzerland) alongside Pablo Garrido Arnaiz.

Parabase have a very keen eye for picking up things and putting them out of place. At least out of their initially proposed place...to be place in a new place though out by them. “Decontextualisation is something we can find: in almost all contemporary art piece, in most of he songs we listen to, in in writing but in architecture it is not that common.”

Decontextualisation adds layers of meaning to architecture.

Why can’t a sculpture be understood as a column?

Why can’t a roof rotate 90 degrees and play as a facade?

Maybe they can. “Architecture can be read in many ways, and it has a lot of meanings.”

Sometimes, decontextualised ideas come out of absolute casualty “or maybe there is a certain hidden reason of why we have made these decisions” and post-rationalised.

“The social economical system we live in…it is not circular, it is about generating and destroying, generating and destroying.” Meanwhile, they are designing a Housing project made out of, al least, 2 500 pieces dismantled out of a parking lot.

We observe the phenomenon of pavilions made under the aim of biennales/triennials/festivals. Is it the case that all these events are “creating a typology of architecture” as well as “creating a typology of architects”? We wonder.

Pablo says the following quote at the beginning of our conversation…but I feel like taking it of place and putting it as the final message of this episode’s brief:

“To do meaningful architecture and have fun (…) basically this is the ultimate motivation of our work.”

Guest: Pablo Garrido Arnaiz  (Barcelona, Spain + Zurich, Switzerland + Mexico City, Mexico)

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

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