The domain of architects
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This modern complex of 13 apartments and four studios for musicians was built in a traditional Parisian neighborhood of continuous façades. Pablo Katz Architecture, 2010.
- CAU: Many of your works include parks and green areas especially designed to collect rainwater and river risings. One of them is a park in the river, sustainable considering the manifestations of nature. Environmental issues are essential, but unfortunately many of the solutions that are provided are fictitious. They cannot be thought out without regard to the relationship with the city and the problems of scale of the block and the neighborhood, the location and orientation of buildings whose requirements are different depending on the site. However, regulations level everything and in many cases impose absurd and even detrimental solutions from an environmental point of view. We as architects must revisit this from the specifics and uniqueness of each situation, with the awareness that every time we overstress one of the conceptual entries of the project - economical, social, heritage related, environmental, technological – it is done at the expense of the balance. The architect is the one who should put each of those entries at the service of the whole project. These are larger issues and as architects we don’t have the right to lose our legitimate role in them. - YB: Based on your experience at the French Society of Architects, how do you handle the issue of professional rights and duties? We must resist and regain the spaces that we have lost and that are part of the architects’ own competence and domain. In the French Society of Architects we are quite involved in this kind of struggle. I participate in the inter-ministerial commission for the quality of public buildings. I run a multidisciplinary working group that includes representatives from various engineering and other disciplines, to design models that allow us to work together and seek agreements to protect our professions. It is a new founding document for professional relationships and those between clients and construction professionals. If we want influence we must unite.
cuatro estudios para músicos se levantó en un tradicional barrio parisino de fachadas continuas. Pablo Katz Architecture, 2010.
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