Architecture & Interiors/2006/23 min/Reel № 06.001
ByAlbie Sachs
Albie Sachs on designing the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006
A close reading, kept within reach.
Albie Sachs takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Albie's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Albie Sachs talks about the design of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, a building that is “a place for everybody”.
About the speaker
Albie Sachs
Cape Town/South Africa
An activist and former Constitutional Court judge of South Africa.
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