Next stop, Zurich (CH) alongside Piet Eckert, whom together with Wim Eckert founded E2A. 

Can a building ever be abstract? Can an idea ever be concrete? What about a model, how abstract can a model be? “The abstraction of a thought leads to an architectural strategy, we can produce a model that keeps this abstraction.”

With such a wide range of thoughts…how to keep our focus? Piet says he as “found  a way to deal with many conditions and not have the obligation to always think everything through.” He explains it further: “for example, a plan, is more abou how a space is organised; a model is about how a structure is creating synthesis; an image, for example, can accentuate our attention a space.”

It’s about method and about methodically taking the best out of it.

Nevertheless, for E2A, it’s important to emphasise that "the built work is always the synthesis, otherwise we have done something really wrong”.

“Its about definition and tolerance.

It’s about defining the world but making it free to be discovered.”

“I am not trying to limit things. I am trying to enable.”

“Liberty itself is not a quality.”

Guest: Piet Eckert, E2A (CH)

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

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