What convinced you to join the hej.build Architecture Advisory Board?
The exchange with manufacturers and colleagues. The opportunity to give feedback and perhaps change a few small things.
What is most on your mind at the moment in architecture, interior architecture or building products?
The construction transition, especially with functional and social sustainability: in planning, in building practice and in the consumption of resources. How do we manage to break new ground, with confidence, affordable costs and a reasonable amount of effort?
What does good architecture/interior architecture mean to you?
It has to create a place that people like to visit, use and live in, and ideally offer added value on several levels: for the users, the neighbourhood, the district. And it should treat what is already there, and what is needed to build it, with care.
Is there a current highlight or an all-time favourite project?
Our Magdas Hotel in Vienna: getting the maximum out of a minimum of resources, reassembling what was already there, and creating a great collective work through the motivation and activation of many people.
What drives you in your work?
HOW we develop things plays a big role for me: the process loops of listening, adapting and communicating, and the fun of working together.
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Which topic is keeping you busy right now?
Tell us briefly which building products it’s about and what you want to achieve. We’ll get back to you with an initial assessment. We often start with our »Day One« workshop: a day at your premises, where marketing, sales and senior management set priorities together.