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‘Otherworldliness’: The Pull of Black Velvet, Latex, Tights, Quilts, Tablecloths, and Frocks: An Interview with Will Alsop

2006; Wiley; Volume: 76; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/ad.352

1554-2769

Mark Garcia,

Architecture and Computational Design

Abstract Will Alsop is most immediately identified with the expressive, colourful and painterly in architecture. His reputation as architecture's masterly Abstract Expressionist all too easily overshadows his engagement with more specific material and conceptual concerns. In conversation with Alsop at his Battersea studios, Mark Garcia discovered that a preoccupation with textiles has been latent in his work since his studies at the Architectural Association (AA) in the early 1970s. It is only, however, in a recent body of work that Alsop has started to innovatively bring it to the fore by translating the unexploited qualities of textiles into a plausible architecture. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.