听of Scaffold features a conversation with the architect听Gon莽alo Andr茅 Pires.
Gon莽alo Andr茅 Pires (PT) is an architect, who studied architecture at Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa and Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio where he graduated with professor Quintus Miller. Gon莽alo collaborated in offices around Switzerland, Belgium and Spain, such as Atelier Peter Zumthor, OFFICE Kersten Geers David van Severin, Vincent van Duysen Architects and Estar.In 2021, he has co-founded Studio Sotnas, focusing on developing and realising buildings, exhibitions and publications. He currently lives and practices in between Portugal, Switzerland and Denmark and teaches at Aarhus School of 51青楼.
Sotnas鈥檚 work balances the highly technical with the atmospheric. Their buildings appear both strangely familiar and almost alien,听harkening back to the high tech movement of the 1970鈥檚, while also projecting forward to cusp of a new reality of light weight, high performance construction that uses standard components in new and surprising ways. Gon莽alo came to London in early November of 2024 to share his work with students at the RCA, after which he sat down to record this interview.听
"While in the 90s and 2000s there were a lot of idealistic inventions and visions that wanted to be forced into being, now it鈥檚 more about reassembling and reorganising existing meanings and values in the things that we might we already have at hand, understanding that it鈥檚 more about discovering than inventing. We鈥檙e interested in bringing meaning to a building from the components that are essential to it." 鈥� GAP
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