"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 , Filip Domaszczynski, Marta Nowosielska and Dorota Sibinska of Warsaw's XYstudio will answer our ten questions.
Filip Domaszczyński - architect, co-owner of the Warsaw-based XYstudio studio, founded in 2004, co-author, among other things, of the award-winning "Yellow Elephant" kindergarten in Suwałki and the Grand Prix of the "Polityka" Architecture Prize, awarded this year - House for the Homeless in Jankowice.
1. architecture in three words...?
a. Order.
b. Space.
c. Technology.
2. The three most important buildings to you...?
a. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao - first direct contact with deconstructivism.
b. César Manrique, home of his own - order and harmony of nature with architecture.
c. Home for the homeless in Yankovice - the impossible made possible.
3. the most important book on architecture...?
Neufert, "Handbook of Design."
4. most inspiring city and why...?
The one that is not there because it is an open new page.
5. architect with whom you would like to design something and why...?
I already chose XYstudio and only them.
6. hand drawing or computer drawing?
Hand-drawn first, then computer drawing.
7. mockup or 3D model?
3D model for the sake of time.
8. modernism or postmodernism?
Modernism.
9. Working after hours or sports?
Working after hours.
10. architecture or business?
Architecture is an obvious one.
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.
