Architecture & Interiors/2018/1 hr 3 min/Reel № 18.001
ByThomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick on the importance of placemaking
Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018
A close reading, kept within reach.
Thomas Heatherwick 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 United Kingdom in 2018, 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.
“The clean line is an enemy of good placemaking.”
About the speaker
Thomas Heatherwick
London/United Kingdom
Thomas leads the design of all Heatherwick Studio projects, working in collaboration with a team of 180 highly-skilled architects, designers, and makers.
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