"10 Questions to..." is a series of short interviews with architects and female architects, to whom we address the same pool of questions. In today's installment of the mini-interview, Jan Sikora of Sikora Wnętrza Architektura studio answers our ten questions.
Jan Sikora - interior architect and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, owner of Sikora Wnętrza Architektura studio. Winner of the Architectural Award of Polityka for the project Stacja Kultura in Rumia.
1. architecture in three words...?
a. Context.
b. Harmony.
c. Story.
2: The three most important buildings for you are...?
a. The Christo-packed Reichstag.
b. The Louvre with the Ming Peia pyramid.
c. The family home where I spent my childhood.
3. the most important book on architecture...?
Peter Zumthor's "Thinking with Architecture."
4. most inspiring city and why...?
Venice, because it is a non-obvious place and always surprises me. Both the unusual street corridors on the border between architecture and interior design, and the Architecture Biennale. It inspires with its acoustics, sea breeze and the fact that you can get lost there sober and after a good wine. I appreciate the charm of its colored glass and dusty building facades where the line between wooden detailing and stone fades. And more recently for the fact that without tourists there appeared dolphins.
5. architect you would like to design something with and why...?
Alejandro Aravena - I like his thoughts and courage. I would like to get to know him better by doing things together. Maybe there will be an opportunity to do so.
6. hand-drawing or computer drawing?
Hand-drawing.
7. mockup or 3D model?
3D model.
8. modernism or postmodernism?
Postmodernism.
9. After-hours work or sports?
Sports.
10. architecture or business?
Architecture.
If you have suggestions for questions you'd like us to ask or people of architects whose answers to these questions you'd like to know - let us know in the comments.
