"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, Łukasz Skorek of Krakow-based KUMstudio answers our questions.
ŁukaszSkorek - the creator of KUMstudio Łukasz Skorek, a Krakow-based architectural studio. A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology, he gained professional experience in renowned global architectural studios, including Erick van Egeraat associated architects, and in time established his own architectural office under the metaphorical name Cacophony of Fleeting Thoughts. This year he was the winner of the Europe 40 Under 40® award recognizing young European architects.
1. architecture in three words...?
a. Cacophony.
b. Fleeting.
c. Thoughts.
2. the three most important buildings for you...?
a. Definitely any of my first author's, that is from KUMstudio.
b. Vershina in Surgut, Russia.
c. A tiny project, but I have a fondness for it - the Institute for the Treatment of Zezus in Krakow.
3. The most important book about architecture...?
"Letters Against War" by Tiziano Terzani. It is by no means a book about architecture, but anything that provokes me to valuable and insightful thoughts makes me a better architect-man.
4 Most inspiring city and why...?
Well, unfortunately, not a city, but the world of mountains, which I love. I guess it's the non-architectural that inspires the most. I draw a lot from nature.
5. architect with whom you would like to design something and why...?
I used to want to co-design something with TYIN Architects, as one of the representatives of Norwegian social architecture.
6. hand drawing or computer drawing?
The most important thing is the ability to convey what we want to show, design, create. The form is secondary (although sometimes important).
7. mockup or 3D model?
As above, although manual skills have a greater substitute for authorship and uniqueness - one author, something personal....
8. modernism or postmodernism?
DIVERSITY, dissimilarity..., not stuck in one.
9. working after hours or sports?
Sport, of course. Although creative work also leaves its mark after work, so it's hard to say when we start it and when we finish it.
10. architecture or business?
Certainly the creative aspect of our work is the most interesting.
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