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BV DOSHI INDIA & ALVARO SIZA PORTUGAL Material of the Future Projects by by Kengo Kuma - Sheila Sri Prakash, Shilpa Architects SR Exclusive! - Aman Aggarwal, Charged Voids Healthcare Design Post Pandemic - Madhav Raman, Partner, Anagram Architects Brand Buzz with Mukesh Savlani, CEO-International Business - Realty Dialogues with Shailesh Puranik, Welspun Flooring MD, Puranik Builders SR SPECIAL: 10 PANDEMIC DRIVEN TRENDS WHICH ARE GOING TO STAY www.SurfacesReporter.com | #SurfacesReporter 10 Pandemic driven design trends ThaT ARE LikeLY TO STAY Exclusive Design Trends picked up by SURFACES REPORTER POST COVID-19 EDITORIAL VERTICA DVIVEDI Editor-in-Chief, Surfaces Reporter | Founder, WADE ASIA Co-Chairperson, Women Entrepreneurs Committee, PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry [email protected] | www.vertica.in FEW SELECTED COMMENTS & CONVERSATION BETWEEN LEGENDS: BV DOSHI AND ALVARO SIZA It is not often that one gets to listen to conversation BV Doshi to Alvaro Siza (sharing his love between legends! So you can imagine how special for the way Siza sketches and works): it was for me to be one of the moderators during “When you are drawing and your own the conversation and to host the two phenomenal hand is drawn outside your body there is a architects on SURFACES REPORTER’S (SR) detachment there, a spiritual contact, and platform in July 2020! not the function of a material contact. For a It was historic! minute, perhaps, for a point you don’t exist The two global mega icons Alvaro Siza, Portugal and something happens to the drawing, (Pritzker laureate 1992) and B.V. Doshi, India to the lines, to the space and even to your (Pritzker laureate 2018) talked about their buildings. philosophy of architecture which is very much I was wondering about the quality of the rooted in traditions. buildings that are there which you have Earlier, I had picked 21 quotes by Professor built, how come they almost become Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi from his book “Paths ephemeral? They don’t have weight; they Uncharted” which has more than 10 million views don’t feel like dead buildings, they look in www.surfacesreporter.com. like flowers. When you draw, you seem to be so detached. Are you always doing this I have lovingly selected a few conversations and as if you are disconnected, it is something comments by the masters picked from the LIVE magical, fluid, which is ephemeral?” telecast on YouTube & Facebook pages of SR. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2020 | WWW.SURFACESREPORTER.COM | 6 Surfaces Reporter Alvaro Siza to BV Doshi: (Responds with a smile) BV Doshi - We are not talking about culture You are a philosopher and a poet. So when you anymore and culture is of value, culture has no look at my drawings you transform in a way you market but that is what life is about. make a poem, your poem about what you see in the drawing. When you see the landscape, Alvaro Siza (while talking about a building he you see a sculpture also. built long back and had come to renovate) - So when I entered the building I began looking at Alvaro Siza (sharing his emotions when he was the pieces hanging from ceiling and I said, ‘it not selected for a project) – is too much, I don’t like it’. And, at the end, I thought, this was made by another architect, “I was put out of a candidature for a competition the young Alvaro Siza, so I must respect him to build a hospital because I had not made any too (laughs)! hospital earlier. I was very angry with this and wrote a letter saying ‘Alvar Aalto had also made no hospital before he made the Sanatorium, BV Doshi - The whole idea being that the a masterpiece that still works’. So I think, architect is not the designer. The designer is the people who are obsessed with organisation of users who lives their lives there, and create the specialization are less prepared for any type of space what they want to. building because they do not understand the relation that exists between programs. BV Doshi (while sharing his experiences of working with master architects) - The building Architects must have specialisation but they just sits very lightly as if a bird is sitting on the should not be specialists.” land. And I think that is something which I was fascinated. There is something to do with the spiritual quality of not touching the paper, you Alvaro Siza (sharing his love for sketching don't want to hurt things, and I don't know while roaming in the streets) - I make sketches whether I am right. not only to study a building but when I go to a site I like, I cannot resist. The most irresistible For more, check out the cover story in the town for that is Rome, because in Rome, you November/December issue of SURFACES go to a street and start drawing, several people REPORTER magazine. are doing that and no one will bother you. In some towns, it is difficult since a lot of people will come and ask you what you are doing, why you are doing. And in India too, nobody came to see what I was drawing because they have much to do, to live. BV Doshi - I am free because I am a child. Alvaro Siza - Becoming a child is important because architecture without the pleasure & joy is a horrible activity. 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