Second Studio Podcast Interview with Jimenez
The second studio (formerly Midnight Chart) is about design, architecture, and daily open podcasts. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bordernet, present a variety of creative workshops featuring unwritten speeches and personal conversations.
Topics are covered with honesty and humor. Some sections are interviews, while others are tips for partner designers, reviews of buildings and other projects, or daily life and design searches. The second studio is available on iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.
This week, David and Marina join Jimenez, the founder of the bureau, to discuss civics and infrastructure in urban areas. Collage architecture; What salon, salon does ?; His current project is “Homeless Citizens”; The book “Citizen of the Place”; Living and studying in Taliesin West; And suburban developments.
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Top Stories and Timeline
Study of civic spaces in cities. (00:00)
Pershing Square, like other civic infrastructure, is designed to be a forum for public discussions, including unjust killings of civilians. That place is designed for that purpose, but people do not use it, [instead they] Take it to the street – on a floor intended for vehicle infrastructure. This means that the vehicle infrastructure doubles as a vehicle and civic infrastructure during a social crisis. I think this is very important as an aspect of understanding downtown speeds. (04:28)
Why urban issues are important. (19:40)
Collage Architecture (27:27)
I think everything is collage. If you take the definition of collage and highlight it to the wall section, you will suddenly realize that there is steam protection and protection, if it is a brick wall, there is a brick coating. Even a wall-to-wall list that looks like a mono-logical assembly is actually a multi-component component. […] Perhaps even at the city level, it is a game of beautiful corpses between architects, the first building in the city, the second, the third building holding that block can all be designed by different people and therefore the similarity of the block and the differences in texture feel like a collage project. (28:06)
Ask about the meaning of the “class” and its functions. (37:00)
What is a salon? Is it just a space name to sit around and eat or eat? But if we sleep there, will this salon change? Are you allowed to sleep in the kitchen? If you are sleeping in the kitchen, do people yell or yell at you? I definitely think it stumbles, right? Why does anyone sleep in the kitchen? I think these social contracts that we create with the internal designation of places, if they take a step back, it seems ridiculous that we do that. If you take a step back, it may be a process of freedom to think about how we can design ordinary and inspiring things on the one hand, but on the other hand, it is not a matter of structure or organization or program. It will be a behavioral discussion. Why I think what we are doing is very exciting, because architecture affects the physical appearance of human beings. (37:34)
Should more architects help write public policies? (43:36)
Sometimes I feel like the buildings were designed before any architect was involved. The mass is predetermined, the obstacles are pre-determined, sometimes the strategies are pre-determined, the number of windows, the fencing or even the material is pre-determined. I do not know. I wonder in what ways we can become more active members in this process. (43:50)
Jimenez’s current project, “Homeless Citizens” (54:33)
How Jimenez created the fictional novel “Homeless Citizens.” (01:01:55)
Living and studying in Taliesin West. Suburban growth is not healthy. (01:07:55)
When I learned about the vast city of Acre, I thought Frank Lloyd Wright could be a source of inspiration for the suburbs. I know for Wright that he thinks of agriculture as a solution to wealth, but it eventually turned into something else. The United States, as a country, has such a broad view that it is unrestricted in its geographical area, but that is not the case. And I say this process will eventually become a chapter in “Citizens Without a Place”. I decided to wrap up the City Acre City Model and suggest shooting into space. If it were confined to a space shuttle, there would be no expansion. (01:12:23)
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