Next stop, Zurich (CH) alongside Piet Eckert, whom together with Wim Eckert founded E2A. Can a building ever be abstract? Can an idea ever be concrete? What about a model, how abstract can a model be? âThe abstraction of a thought leads to an architectural strategy, we can produce a model that keeps this abstraction.â With such a wide range of thoughtsâŠhow to keep our focus? Piet says he as âfound a way to deal with many conditions and not have the obligation to always think everything through.â He explains it further: âfor example, a plan, is more abou how a space is organised; a model is about how a structure is creating synthesis; an image, for example, can accentuate our attention a space.â Itâs about method and about methodically taking the best out of it. Nevertheless, for E2A, itâs important to emphasise that "the built work is always the synthesis, otherwise we have done something really wrongâ. âIts about definition and tolerance. Itâs about defining the world but making it free to be discovered.â âI am not trying to limit things. I am trying to enable.â âLiberty itself is not a quality.â Guest: Piet Eckert, E2A (CH) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram@arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.