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Peter Zumthor, architect, in conversation with architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams.
About Peter Zumthor
Born in 1943 in Basel, Switzerland, Zumthor works with around three dozen people in the alpine setting of Haldenstein, Switzerland, producing architecture originals like Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Therme Vals, Vals, Switzerland; Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany; and the Steilneset Memorial, Vardo, Norway. In 1963, he began studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule, an arts and crafts school in Basel, and studied industrial design and architecture as an exchange student at Pratt Institute in New York in 1966.
Zumthor founded Atelier Peter Zumthor in 1979. His work is largely unpublished because he believes that architecture must be experienced first-hand. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award (1999); the Praemium Imperiale (2008); and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2009). In 2012, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He is currently designing the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
About Billie Tsien and Tod Williams
Husband-and-wife architecture firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners, was founded in 1986 in New York City. Williams and Tsien began working together in 1977. Their firm focuses on institutions such as museums, schools, and nonprofit organizations, including the following recent projects: the Obama Presidential Center, Chicago; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; American Folk Art Museum, New York; and the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
受賞歴のある建築・研究スタジオ、カウンタースペースの共同設立者であり、代表を務めている。第20回サーペンタイン・パビリオン（2020/2021年）のデザイナーであり、国際的に有名な建築プログラムの依頼を受けた史上最年少の建築家です。彼女は、サーペンタインで開始された新しいフェローシッププログラム「Support Structures for Support Structures」の立ち上げと開発に携わっています。これは、アートと社会正義、アートとアーカイブ、アートとエコロジーが交差する場所での活動を通じて、コミュニティを支援するアーティストやコレクティブを支援するものです。2022年、スマイヤ・ヴァリーは、世界経済フォーラムによって、世界で最も有望なアーティスト、研究者、起業家、活動家、政治家のコミュニティであるヤング・グローバル・リーダーズの一人に選ばれました。
現在、ヴァーリーはアーティスティックディレクターとして、2023年にジェッダで開催される第1回イスラム芸術ビエンナーレのキュレーションに携わっています。現在、リベリアのモンロビアにある「Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development」の設計に協力しており、女性国家元首のための初の大統領図書館として、舞台装置、パビリオン、展示スペースを監督します。また、1945年にイギリスのマンチェスターで開催された第5回パンアフリカ会議を記念する庭園と集会所の設計にも携わっています。
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Sumayya Vally was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1990. Vally’s design, research, and pedagogical practice is searching for expression for hybrid identities and territory, particularly for African and Islamic conditions. Her design process is often forensic, and draws on the aural, performance and the overlooked as generative places of history and work.
She is the co-founder and principal of the award-winning architecture and research studio, Counterspace. A TIME100 Next List honouree, Sumayya Vally is named as shaping the future of the architectural canon and practice; and designer of the 20th Serpentine Pavilion (2020/2021), Vally is the youngest architect ever to be commissioned for the internationally renowned architecture programme. She has worked on initiating and developing Support Structures for Support Structures, a new fellowship programme launched at the Serpentine, which supports artists and collectives who support community through their work at the intersections of art and social justice, art and the archive, and art and ecology. In 2022 Sumayya Vally was selected by the World Economic Forum to be one of its Young Global Leaders, a community of the world’s most promising artists, researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, and political leaders.
As Artistic Director, Vally is currently working on curating the first Islamic Arts Biennale taking place in Jeddah in 2023. She is currently collaborating on the design of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development in Monrovia, Liberia, the first presidential library dedicated to a female head of state, where she will oversee the scenography, pavilions, and exhibition spaces. She is also working on a garden and gathering place commemorating the 5th Pan-African Congress held in Manchester, UK, in 1945.
Sumayya’s practice operates adjacent to the academy. For six years she led the masters’ studio, Unit 12, at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg—founded by Professor Lesley Lokko, with the intent to create a curriculum for the African continent. She has lectured widely, most recently as Pelli Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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”To take the relation between people and things or the environment and shed light on it to find suitable and optimal solutions is my job.” Japanese design pioneer, Naoto Fukasawa, shares his work process, philosophies, and thoughts on good and bad design.
Of course, Naoto Fukasawa drew as a child. But growing up with a father who was an electrician, he was also constantly surrounded by different tools that opened a world to create that went beyond drawings. When the time came to choose what to study, Fukasawa decided to become a product designer. “The first ten to fifteen years, I thought that the making of good forms or beautiful forms was my job,” he explains. “I was told that designs differ according to peoples’ taste. I don’t think so,” Fukasawa says and elaborates: “Instead of asking the opinion or sense of people, it’s better to be quiet and observe. I am sure that there are things that all people will like. I don’t know if you could call it universal. But I deliberately use this intuition and try to give it a form. To keep quiet and try to show is the essence of design.”
Known for his minimalistic aesthetics, Fukasawa has designed products for several respected companies, including the iconic Japanese lifestyle store, MUJI. When talking about simplicity in design Naoto Fukasawa says: “Simple is not just a question of form, but also of harmony.” To him, the best-designed products needn’t necessarily be noticeable: “They just have to be there when you need them, without causing trouble. They show their love best by being quiet.” To achieve this in his design, Fukasawa uses the same method: “To observe people, their surroundings, space, and things have become a natural habit of mine.”
“If a designer thinks about structure together with an engineer, it’s actually easier to do this ‘design thinking’.” An essential part of Naoto Fukasawa’s design process lies within his collaboration with skilled craftsmen and engineers: “As an industrial designer, the knowledge of the whole industrial production process from design to the factory is very important,” he says and continues: “Design is to have the power to feel and understand what everybody will like. And make sure this is understood by the craftsmen or the engineers. It’s not just something you should feel. The designer should also know precisely how to realize it.”
