April, 2021 - The Canadian Centre for Architecture invited us to interview 5 practices in order to expand the discussion initiated with recent With and Within web issue and in The Things Around Us exhibition, focused on the role of architects and their relation to a broader understanding of context, their capacity to read and learn from local conditions, finding new spaces for design, particularly through the work of 51n4e and Rural Urban Framework.
We discussed with Lacol (SP), Umwelt (CL), REAL (UK), Rozana Montiel (MX) and Grand Huit (FR), to know more about their practice and understanding of concrete local conditions in relation to urgent global questions, like commons, housing and ecology.
The first article of the series entitled ‘The Architecture of Cooperation’ results from our conversation with Carles Baiges and Cristina Gamboa of Lacol.
The second article entitled ‘Working with Energy’ introduces our dialogue with Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu and Arturo Scheidegger of Umwelt.