Architecture & Interiors/2016/25 min/Reel № 16.001
ByThomas Chapman
Thomas Chapman on reconnecting a fractured city
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Thomas Chapman 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 2016, the conversation is grounded in Thomas'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.
South African architect Thomas Chapman is fixing the past using layers of new design.
About the speaker
Thomas Chapman
Johannesburg/South Africa
Thomas Chapman is the founder of Local Studio – an architecture firm that creates public buildings and urban design schemes that promote social development.
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