Santiago Cirugeda and his team constructed this building using recycled building materials.

Architecture & Interiors/2015/2 min/Reel № 15.001

BySantiago Cirugeda

Trailer: Santiago Cirugeda on self-construction

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

Santiago Cirugeda and his team constructed this building using recycled building materials.
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A close reading, kept within reach.

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Santiago Cirugeda 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 Spain in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Santiago'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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What did Santiago say about…

Spanish architect Santiago Cirugeda talks architectural activism and self-construction.

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Santiago Cirugeda

Seville/Spain

Santiago Cirugeda is a subversive architect from Seville, Spain, whose work focusses on reclaiming urban spaces for public use.