Heute gibt es mal ein ande­res Inter­view. Ich habe bei ate­lier­mob ange­fragt, ob jemand die 11 Fra­gen beant­wor­ten kann. Lei­der bekam ich eine „Absage”. Ate­lier­mob ist keine Per­son, und kann daher einige Fra­gen nicht beant­wor­ten, son­dern ein Büro. Aber dem kann abge­hol­fen wer­den und daher gibt es heute 11 Fra­gen an … ein Büro. Zur Gewohn­heit soll das aber nicht wer­den, da die per­sön­li­che Note fehlt. Oder gefällt es euch?

ate­lier­mob

Before we begin with the inter­view, please describe the office in 3 – 4 sen­ten­ces briefly.
_ateliermob: ate­lier­mob is a Lis­bon (Por­tu­gal) based office, that deve­lops ideas and pro­jects in archi­tec­ture, design and urba­nism.
Our pro­jects and work have been often refe­renced and dis­tin­gu­is­hed with awards as the hono­r­able men­tion on the Inter­na­tio­nal Ideas Com­pe­ti­tion for the Paris Cour­thouse [2006], the 1^st Prize on the Inter­na­tio­nal Com­pe­ti­tion to Deve­lop Tagus’ River Banks [2007] and the 1^st Prize on the Com­pe­ti­tion for the New Moura’s Ceme­tery [2008]. In 2007, ate­lier­mob was inte­gra­ted in the Top 10 New Por­tu­guese Blood held by „New Ita­lian Blood”.

Ques­tion 1:When and by whom the office was foun­ded?
_ateliermob: The office was foun­ded in 2005 at Lis­bon by 4 part­ners, and since the begin­ning of 2007 is lead by And­reia Sala­vessa and Tiago Mota Saraiva

Ques­tion 2: Why should cli­ents in any case work toge­ther with an archi­tect?
_ateliermob: If you are ill you have to look for a doc­tor, if you go on a plain you expect to be gui­ded by one pilot, if you need a house we must work with an architect.

Ques­tion 3: How would you describe archi­tec­tu­ral style of the office?
_ateliermob: If we could describe it, we would be working to unstyle it.

Ques­tion 4: Which jour­nals have you sub­scri­bed in the office?
_ateliermob: Daily natio­nal news­pa­pers and a few selec­ted inter­na­tio­nal blogs/webites that publish on real­time: Archinect, Dezeen, Wired, The Cool Hun­ter, Um Sítio, Mono­ble and Europaconcorsi

Ques­tion 5: Who are your role models and why?
_ateliermob: No role models

Ques­tion 6: Is the cli­ent king or should he be gui­ded to his luck by an archi­tect?
_ateliermob: Both and none of it. We have to under­stand the cli­ents and inte­grate them as the cen­ter of the pro­ject alt­hough cla­ri­fy­ing who is the designer

Ques­tion 7: What has been the most inte­res­ting pro­ject that you have com­ple­ted?
_ateliermob: All the pro­jects are inte­res­ting, it is not a pro­blem of scale, pro­gram or time.

Ques­tion 8: From Paul Valéry comes the term „archi­tec­ture is music made in stone.” What refe­rees to the ques­tion, what music you’re cur­rently happy to hear in the office?
_ateliermob: In fact that ques­tion is as dif­fi­cult as the one from the style of the office. We lis­ten radio a lot.

Ques­tion 9: Which buil­ding would you like to design and why?
_ateliermob: Right now, the ceme­tery we are designing.

Ques­tion 10: Archi­tec­ture is … ?
_ateliermob: Some­thing you have to leave in and with.

And finally, ques­tion 11: What ques­tion would you like to ask and whom?
_ateliermob: To Sebas­tian Lauff: Why us?

I am glad to have you as an non-german speaking archi­tect on my maga­zine. So I take the oppor­tu­nity to ask you a few more ques­ti­ons inte­res­ting for me and others. How to become an archi­tect in your coun­try?
_ateliermob: 5 years stu­dies + 1 year of internship

In ger­many you have to be a mem­ber of the archi­tec­tu­ral cham­ber to call your­self an archi­tect. Is there any com­pa­ra­ble in Por­tu­gal?
_ateliermob: In Por­tu­gal it’s the same.

What about the cur­rent mar­ket situa­tion in your place?
_ateliermob: It’s very clo­sed and there is a gene­ral move­ment that is try­ing to avoid new archi­tects and ideas.

Are there any spe­cial archi­tec­tual con­di­ti­ons in Por­tu­gal?
_ateliermob: We almost don’t have design competitions.

Thank you ateliermob.

ate­lier­mob — arqui­tec­tura, design e urba­nismo lda.
Tv. Cruz do Des­terro nº 26 2º
1150 121 Lis­boa Por­tu­gal
T. + 351 218863869
F. + 351 218863869
info@ateliermob.com
www.ateliermob.com

Und die Ant­wort auf die Fra­gen 11 lautet:

Why not? I found you on twit­ter (@ateliermob) and found you tweets inte­res­ting. Thanks for being here!