"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, Marcin Brataniec talked about the most important buildings, Muminki and drawing on glass.
Marcin Brataniec- a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology, vice president for creativity at the Cracow branch of SARP. Since 2007 he has been running his own design studio eM4. Pracownia Architektury. Brataniec.
1. architecture in three words...?
a. Man.
b. The idea.
c. Matter.
2. the three most important buildings for you...?
There are more than three, none of which I can leave out.
a. the prefabricated concrete block of flats in Gorlice where I grew up, the playground under the block,
b. my grandmother's wooden house in the village of Turza, behind it fields, forest and a small river, my shack built in the forest,
c. my grandmother's brick house in Lezajsk, the trees and the roof of the garage where I sat for days,
d. the neo-Baroque palace on the slope of the Ropa River in Siary, where I lived for a while as a child - its scattering in the landscape and rusty shell casings from the First War poking out from between the leaves,
e. the tenement house in Cracow where I live.
3. the most important book about architecture...?
Tove Jansson's "The Moomins," the entire series, and it includes the house, which is where the Moomins are together, the lighthouse on the island, which is Daddy's dream, and the Vagabond's tent, which is about being here temporarily.
4. most inspiring city and why...?
This is changing, currently Pewek, which triggers thoughts of wandering through Chukotka.
5. Architect you would like to design something with and why...?
Ursula Forczek-Brataniec, because somehow I still miss her. Marek Bystroń and Damian Mierzwa, because they are good architects.
6. hand drawing or computer drawing?
Any drawing - also cave drawings, finger on water and "Drawing on glass" by Krzysztof Krawczyk.
7. mockup or 3D model?
Spatial imagination.
8. modernism or postmodernism?
Doesn't matter, it's totally different things that count.
9. working after hours or sports?
Sports are unhealthy, so movement rather than sports, combined with work comes out a compact monolith. Sometimes gaps and cracks appear in it, in them are completely different spaces.
10. architecture or business?
Architecture.
