Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

• #46 Conen Sigl Architekten (CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Let’s travel to Zurich to meet Maria Conen and Raoul Sigl, working together since 2011 under the name Conen Sigl Architekten. Their practice is rooted in curiosity, precision, and a constant questioning of how architecture belongs - to its place, to its people, and to its stories.“How is this building grounded in the neighbourhood?” they ask. Every project begins with observation - reading the place carefully, understanding “what do I look at in this project?” and leaving space for multiple answers. “Maybe there is not one answer, maybe there are a lot of answers.”Drawing plays a special role - not as documentation, but as reflection. “Drawing as a synthesis is more to keep in mind our thoughts for the project.” These synthesis drawings are not about technical detail, but about memory and pleasure - “the things you are most interested in.”Architecture, they say, should be precise yet open, allowing life to unfold in unexpected ways. “Not always the best materialisation or the best concept of colours makes a good space. Sometimes it’s the people.” Beauty, after all, is “so multilayered” - it shifts, resonates, and tells a different story each time you look.Guests: Maria Conen + Raoul Sigl (Zurich, Switzerland)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram @arquiteturaentrevistas

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• #45 Studio David Klemmer (AT/CH), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Let’s travel to Zurich to meet David Klemmer - an Austrian architect working in Switzerland, running his own office since 2017. In 2022, he founded Studio Diode, an independent satellite dedicated to digital images, where he acts as a digital photographer, constructing and staging virtual portraits of architecture. Two poles define his practice — one introverted, one extroverted — both essential.David understands architecture as an instrument. “An instrument is something that cannot work on its own. It needs a human being.” And like instruments, his buildings are expressive, their structures “exposed, not hidden.”From guitars to satellites, he finds resonance in objects that connect the intimate and the distant. “Musical instruments are the closest things to us… satellites are the most far away.” Yet both shape how we perceive and imagine space. “When I work in 3D, I feel an astronaut.”For David Klemmer, reality is not absolute. “Plans, sections, or even conversations can reveal something I cannot experience when I go there.” Drawing, image-making, and design merge as acts of understanding.Guest: David Klemmer (Austria + Zurich, Switzerland)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram @arquiteturaentrevistas

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• #44 AMAA (IT), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Let’s travel to Venice and Arzignano to meet Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampasso, founding partners of AMAA, a “Collaborative Architecture Office For Research and Development” as they call it. They have recently stated working form New York, as they thought that would be a good pretext to be closer to Donald Judd’s aura. “Instagram fully fills our mind, so it’s not easy to select”. Therefore, they’ve developed their own toolbox, the "AMAA box” - which they progressively disclosure on throughout the episode. “To have a proper selection is important, so we do our selection of a lot of things”. At the end, “all these influences create a language.” There are 3 main pieces: a site, an architect and a client.  “All these 3 things need to work together”. “To be trustable with a client you need to be a storyteller, thats the first thing. But you also need to be humble and practical. (…) The client needs to be with us for the research, for the process, for the after”. The process is good, but the after is the best part, they claim. Let’s not for get about the site, as that is the place where they best express their way of thinking. “We really love to dirty up the situation”. On one hand, “we need to be thinkers but at the same time we need to be builders”. On the other hand, “from a functional problem you can find a way to be also aesthetic”. What goes around comes back around. “The reference is giving to you the power of detail, the power of keeping up your way of thinking and your intuition.”Guest: Marcello Galiotto + Alessandra Rampazzo  (Venice + Arzignano, Italy)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram @arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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• #43 Iván Bravo (CL), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Let’s travel to Santiago, Chile, to meet Iván Bravo whom back in 2002 has founded Iván Bravo Arquitectos, now alongside his associate architect Martin Rojas. Once upon a time Iván noticed he was really interested in the process of the work…even more than its outcome. Polemic. Isn’t it curious that “in art, ”obra” is the final work” (obra de arte /masterpiece) meanwhile, “in architecture, “obra” is the process” (construction site). “It was really interesting to understand that one final work, which we call “obra”, is all the process, including the end”, he says. But can an “obra” (as a construction site) even become an “obra” (masterpiece)? After all, their clients “are not clients that want architecture, they just want a house.” Maybe this is all about getting “lebre por gato”. In other words, “to get something better than you expect to”. Maybe its about cousins who spot Toblerone’s in architecture projects. “We are constantly mixing rationality with intuition, of course.” “The publication of an architecture, the final photos, are a fetichism of the whole process.”Guest: Iván Bravo (Santiago, Chile)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram @arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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• #42 Ryan W Kennihan (IE), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

  Let’s travel to Dublin, Ireland, where Ryan W Kennihan - originally from Chicago - has established his practice in 2007.  Ryan is much more interested in an architecture of resonance then in one that is completely self-involved. “Whatever “non-referencial architecture” means, it is the complete opposite of this”. An architecture of resonance is a certain sense that arises from using forms that exist all over the world. Their practice is about a constant meaning giving. “We want as many as possible, a proliferation of references”. At a certain point we might find ourselves questioning if we are taking part in the evolution or just continuously extending a mistake. One cannot be sorry, “its very much about looking forward and looking back, trying to be old and be new; to be refined and be awkward.” “What’s interesting to me is not the framework itself but actually the variations within the framework.Guest: Ryan W Kennihan, Ryan W. Kennihan Architects (IE)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comInstagram @arquiteturaentrevistasFollow for more thoughts on architecture.

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