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The design projectDevelopment and detailWhat piece of work tends to prompt a re-think?
Kjetil Thorsen
Realising a mistake!
Craig Dykers
Anything to do with a vision of something in three
dimensions. You rarely talk about buildings in the actual
abstract, which is two dimensions or less. I suppose it’s
when you’re seeing your building and walking through it and
being able to understand what it’s like to actually be in it.
Kjetil Thorsen
If you have only a concept, you tend to follow that through.
If you have only the details and the material you tend to
follow those through. Say you start at both ends at the same
time and try to merge them in the middle somewhere, then
you’re more likely to have carried with you both of these
elements, instead of starting at one end and believing it’s a
one-line sort of thing that is happening. The building needs
to have a real performative aspect to it, which means, in our
terminology, that it has to come back and claim something.
Craig Dykers
In general, architects and the architectural process
could be opened up to other disciplines to allow for varying
perspectives. We try to do it as much as we can: invite
authors or screenwriters or artists, especially with public art
and cultural projects. It allows for a change in perception.
Could I ask about the National September 11 Memorial
Museum project? There must be so many different
people, opinions and pressures to accommodate.
Craig Dykers
We started our practice after winning the Alexandria Library
commission, which in many ways has a similar foundation.
It was about loss, the loss of history and the loss of valuable
cultural material. The Library was about an international
institution that united people from around the world to
work together and it was about transforming a society
after some kind of tragic loss had occurred at a historically
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