"10 Questions to..." is a series of short conversations with architects and female architects, to whom we address the same pool of questions. In today's installment of the mini-interview, our ten questions are answered by Michal Leszczynski of the Warsaw studio Grupa 5 Architects.
Michal Leszczynski - graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology in 1995. He also studied at the Ecole des Arts Americaines Fontainebleau and the Institut Superieur de Gestion Paris. Since 1998, he has co-founded the Group 5 Architects studio. Since 2008 he has been teaching students and promoting engineering and master's degrees at the Faculty of Architecture and Construction at Lublin University of Technology.
1. architecture in three words...?
a. Landscape.
b. Solid.
c. Organization.
2. the three most important buildings to you...?
a. The pyramid of Cheops.
b. The Parthenon.
c. Ronchamps chapel, proj.: Le Corbusier.
3. the most important book on architecture...?
"The Language of Patterns," by Christopher Alexander.
4. most inspiring city and why...?
Rome - a build-up of history.
5. architect with whom you would like to design something and why...?
Luigi Snozzi. I would like to work with him to create a pattern architecture for a particular Polish village.
6. Hand drawing or computer drawing?
Hand-drawn.
7. mockup or 3D model?
3D model.
8. modernism or postmodernism?
Modernism.
9. After-hours work or sports?
Sports.
10. architecture or business?
A & B :)
If you have suggestions for questions you would like us to ask, or people of architects whose answers to these questions you would like to know - let us know in the comments.
