RB: The people you interviewed have very different backgrounds and interests in the field of architecture. Save this picture! 21 Customs House Post Office / Studio Anne Holtrop. That’s why we gave such emphasis for instance to emotional memory, which is probably the true antagonist of conceptual discourse. We had to fight against the rationality of language, which is so strong, to find a way of asking questions that would open the field of emotion and memory rather than lead to a cold, conceptual analysis. Translating into words something you feel is extremely complex. That’s why the kind of language we were using was such a big concern for us, precisely to avoid that risk. The potential contradiction of dealing with something so closely related to instinct and intuition through a rational and analytical approach was very real. In the process of this book, the main difficulty we faced was to figure out how to talk about emotion – which by definition is such an irrational feeling – without freezing it, without subduing it. We have worked with this approach through all our films, I would say. Why did you choose to talk about emotions and spaces through interviews?ī&L: As you well know, conversation is probably the best form of exchange to get to a certain degree of proximity and spontaneity through a relaxed and friendly relationship with someone. RB: I myself am a great enthusiast of interviewing people - so much so that I have interviewed you both twice before. Save this picture! Fundação Iberê Camargo / Álvaro Siza Vieira. That was for us a great revelation because it’s rare to find people with such a level of attention to space. It’s like he has in mind a sort of emotional cartography of his house as he moves around it through the day. Everything he does seems to be defined by this search for the right tuning between his body, the space, the very moment and his actions. He totally amazed us when we understood that, based on the topic or the atmosphere of a book or a piece of music, he will choose the place in his house that he thinks is the most suitable to stay in. He is a man who lives in total symbiosis with his environment and constantly looks for the best balance and harmony with it. I think it was the first time we met someone who had such a level of sensibility towards what surrounds him. For us, something very powerful happened at that moment. Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine: I think we started to dive into the questions of how culture shapes perception, sensibility and emotions towards space when we met Mr Moriyama to shoot the film we did with him (Moriyama San, 2017). Where does the interest in emotions come from? Romullo Baratto (ArchDaily): People, places, and spaces have been the subject of your work with films for more than 20 years. To understand a little more about this and about the book "The Emotional Power of Space," we spoke with Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine: To investigate how spaces can affect how we feel and relate to the world, one needs sensitivity to the atmosphere of places. “It is really in the relations between the structural and the immaterial that something happens," the architect concludes. “In an architecture of poetry, functions should not be defined by meaning," says Ryue Nishizawa. We had to fight against the rationality of language, which is so strong, to find a way of asking questions that would open the field of emotion and memory rather than lead to a cold, conceptual analysis,” they say.īy resorting to the emotions and memories of their interviewees, Ila and Louise aim to explore a geography that is unknown to them, and along the way, they find poetic interpretations about architecture and spaces that sometimes dismiss functionality. “Translating into words something you feel is extremely complex. The authors' challenge was to find a language that allowed the necessary mobility of ideas to deal with something so strongly related to instinct and intuition. The geography of emotions is, to some extent, irrational, and the difficulty of addressing the topic lies precisely in the risk of subjecting it to the rigidness of rationality. Save this picture! Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao.
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