17 May 2008
material
J.H: We use conventional materials-glass, wood, concrete in the case of the Goetz building-but we relate them in unaccustomed or new ways so that their tradional character disappears. Glass is not glass anymore,it is as solid and stable as stone or concrete. Conversely, by printing on concrete, it suddenly becomes porous or shiny like glass. This bluring of materials has nothing to do with artists. it is connected with our interest in questioning conventional categories and establishing new references as to what volume or weight or surface can mean.
Catherine Hürzeler: You can only work with things that are familiar because the world is there, it exists. That is related to the phenomenological aspect we were talking about before. All of our insights come through observation; but you have to keep making new observations. By looking, you keep seeing new things. Everything is so complex and so alive that ccuriosity is decisive. It is much more important than repeating the world on the basis of a once discovered canon. syf 69
Catherine Hürzeler: You can only work with things that are familiar because the world is there, it exists. That is related to the phenomenological aspect we were talking about before. All of our insights come through observation; but you have to keep making new observations. By looking, you keep seeing new things. Everything is so complex and so alive that ccuriosity is decisive. It is much more important than repeating the world on the basis of a once discovered canon. syf 69
16 May 2008
15 May 2008
....that you try to develop the idea or the concept from the structure that is already there?
j.Herzog: exactly. We dont think in a priori terms. That is, I am interested in getting up in the morning without knowing what a city is or what a house is. That is exaggeration, of course, but i try to look at the world with new eyes, and something happens in the process of looking. Actually there is no such thing as city planning anymore; there are only certain regulatory possibilities. That is why, for us ,the only means of having any impact at all is by choosing a position or a strategy that tries to enhance or downplay things that are happening anyway- especially in a world that is inclining towards comlete homogeneity.syf 25
j.Herzog: exactly. We dont think in a priori terms. That is, I am interested in getting up in the morning without knowing what a city is or what a house is. That is exaggeration, of course, but i try to look at the world with new eyes, and something happens in the process of looking. Actually there is no such thing as city planning anymore; there are only certain regulatory possibilities. That is why, for us ,the only means of having any impact at all is by choosing a position or a strategy that tries to enhance or downplay things that are happening anyway- especially in a world that is inclining towards comlete homogeneity.syf 25
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