Our 30th stop is in Berlin (Germany), somewhere between a reconverted building and the next building to be reconverted. In fact, that is were we find B+. In fiction, we might also find them beyond the building, in station.plus. Olaf Grawert will take us through that.

To warm up, Olaf identifies 2 big groups of architects: both aim for “values” and “speculation” but their understanding of these terms is fundamentally opposite.

Should our honoraries be measured out of a percentage of construction costs? 

What if “there is more then just building as an answer”?

What if climate crisis are good news for the market? “In our current economic system, a natural disaster is a fantastic thing because the moment you have a natural disaster and things get destroyed, the market grows.”

Is there a correct answer? Are we just giving better wrong answers over and over? “We need to speculate. (…) “Everything that is new, unknown or experimental is not interesting to those who have to sell it”

Sometimes an observation can become a question, and then a movie, and then a publication, and the an exhibition and then a building, and then a law.

Or not.

If you are still thinking about the words “values” and “speculation”…you should listen to our conversation.

“Its pure fiction.”

Guest: Olaf Grawert, b+ (Berlin, Germany)

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

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