"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.
Dorota Sib inska- architect, co-owner of the Warsaw-based XYstudio studio, operating since 2004, co-author, among others, 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. Function.
b. Principle.
c. Proportion.
2. The three most important buildings to you...?
a. Kindergarten on Sowie Street in Warsaw's Mariensztat - as an example and model of post-war architecture for children - simplicity and ideal scale.
b. Kindergarten Yellow Elephant in Ostrow - the first major success.
c. Home for the Homeless in Jankowice - an unusual two years with homelessness problems.
3. the most important book on architecture...?
Steen Eiler Rasmussen, "Feeling Architecture." - the first important and still relevant to my projects.
4. most inspiring city and why...?
Singapore - a city of contrasts, technology and people.
5. architect with whom you would like to design something and why...?
Oskar Hansen - I would like to return to the Grochowski Causeway with him and design it from scratch.
6. hand drawing or computer drawing?
Hand-drawn, it becomes a synthesis of the thoughts contained in it.
7. mockup or 3D model?
3D model - is a form more open to change.
8. modernism or postmodernism?
Definitely modernism.
9. Work after hours or sports?
Work :-)
10. architecture or business?
Architecture.
If you have suggestions for questions you would like us to ask, or people of architects whose answers to these questions you would like to know - let us know in the comments.
