When I am in Oslo I have found some pleasure being present at OAF meetings debating with the different lecturers coming in from all over the world. The latest occation brought me into a dialogue with the architect and professor Markus Schaefer of Hosoya Schaefer Architects in Zürich. The topics was on the aspects of masterplanning in cities under the impact of financial brakedown, and what informed the firms projects. A really interesting discussion that continued after the meeting and into the night. Markus Schaefer started out his education in biology, then in architecture and finished his master under Rem Koolhaas at Harvard, worked at OMA and was for some time the Director of AMO.
He has just sent me an interview which I find very interesting. Here he comments on studio works, as we have been through in this semester. This interview is then the gift to you.
Marcus opens another text with this quotation, that I find relevant to our studio:
“Mans ability to participate intelligently in the evolution of his own system is dependent on his ability to perceive the whole”
Immanuel Wallerstein
In World System Analysis: An Introduction. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004
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