Entrevista- Gregorio García Abarca

Interview with frida escobedo.

Well i grew up in México city and its a very interesting and very intense eating as
you know everything happens and its very active and bringing in fair isnt but i
didnt know, i didnt knew that i was going to be an architect like from the start
like some people have It like a very clear idea of what they want yo do in life
very early on and i didnt. I was seventeen when i had yo decide what career i
needed to choose. I always knew that i was going to be something like un the
creative field but i wasnt sure so i just applied for architecture school because i
thoughtit was like a safer place you know like you have to respond to practical
questions and the artistic part of like doing fine arts for example seemed a Little
bit too like revealing or exposing myself too much so i decided to play it safe and
went ti architect school thinking that maybe well i can try It and if i dont like
It It will help me just yo give me structure and i can pursue another career maybe
in design or arts but i loved It like the first week i was in the architecture
school i cooked a meal of It. Well i think my approach to architecture Is that
simple forms works the best and that simple materials can express very
sophisticated atmospheres so its not necessary to have like a very luxurious
material in orden to achieve a very sophisticated feeling or mood around it and
that was something that we wanted to use in the serpentine pavilion but that has
happened also in many other projects: the Civic stage. The projects that we did for
Standford university all of them are like really really simple in shape and form
and in strategy which Is quite complex to achieve that you have to go trough a lot
of processes and a lot of editing to come up with that final thing that expresses
It all.
Im still based in Mexico City, im still working in the central area in colonia
Juárez and now we're nine people in the office so its a small studio i really enjoy
working like very closely to my colleagues and colaborators. I never worked for any
other office for good and bad i always worked as an independent architect sometimes
with friends i do a lot of collaborations and i think its a great learning
opportunity ti collaborate with some other people and its also like a humbling
experience you know like it makes you know like you be very grounded but Aldo
becoming more creative so i was as i was saying i practice for seven years and then
i went to do my master's degree and then i came back to México, and im still
working there.