#50 AMUNT (DE), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

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This week, we travel to Aachen and Stuttgart to meet AMUNT, founded in 2009 by Björn Martenson, Sonja Nageland Jan Theissen. AMUNT reinvent the existing. They pay attention to the quirky, the overlooked, the oddly specific. “There are ideas in these quirky things, that’s why we collect them.” But collecting is only the beginning. For AMUNT, these observations become operative: “to transfer means the possibility to bring something new to the vocabulary of architecture”. I agree. Each project begins with context - not as something given, but as something constructed. “Everybody can create their own context… you design what you think is your context.” This openness also allows for letting go: “at some point, it becomes the client’s project on the inside, and we let go”. Wise. Constraints play a central role. “We like to take benefits out of constraints… these constraints form a kind of character”. Within limits, they find freedom. “It helps you to find, in the sea of possibilities, a solution that is not just based on taste (…) If we have at least 2 reasons for something, then it’s really good”. In the end, everything has a character: imperfect, specific, quietly alive…waiting to be found. Guests: Björn Martenson + Sonja Nagel + Jan Theissen (Aachen + Stuttgart, Germany) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Spotify: Arquitetura Entre Vistas Instagram: @arquiteturaentrevistas #ArquiteturaEntreVistasABROAD #ArquiteturaEntreVistas #AMUNT #ArchitecturePodcast #ContemporaryArchitecture #GermanArchitecture #DesignProcess #ArchitecturalThinking #ReinventingTheExisting #ArchitecturalContext #ArchitectureLovers