Abstract :
Architectural design is not about having ideas, but about having techniques, techniques that operate on a material level. Itʹs about making matter think and live by itself. Here Lars Spuybroek of NOX talks to Maria Ludovica Tramontin about his engagement with the work of Gottfried Semper and Frei Otto and how it has led him to his own brand of textile tectonics or soft constructivism, in which textiles are transformed into the tectonic through conventional textile techniques - weaving, bundling, interlacing, braiding, knitting or knotting - effectively building structure through softness and flexibility.
Keywords :
Nox: Machining Architecture , Semperian reversal , new World Trade Centre , ParisBRAIN , the Seoul Opera House (2005) , Jalisco Library , Frei Otto and Gottfried Semper , The Metz project , Stoffwechselthese , woollen threads , Semperian textile tectonics , Bernard Tschumiיs Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century , Maison Folies cultural complex in Lille (2001-04) , Noxיs , textile to become tectonic itself , Jeongok Prehistory Museum , the European Central Bank in Frankfurt (2003) , Son-O-House
