Martin Kruger

Architecture & Interiors/2006/43 min/Reel № 06.001

ByMartin Kruger

Martin Kruger on urban architectural projects in Cape Town

Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Martin Kruger 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 Martin'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.

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Architect Martin Kruger talks about urban architectural projects in and around Cape Town.

Martin Kruger

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Martin Kruger

Cape Town/South Africa

Martin Kruger is a painter, architect and urbanist, and a founding member of the Urban Design Institute of South Africa.