Green Roofs - Living Architecture Monitor - Spring 2014 - (Page 13)
CONFESSIONS
OF A
GREEN
' STARCHITECT'
AWARD-WINNING GREEN ARCHITECT EMILIO AMBASZ
ASKS HIMSELF THE QUESTIONS NOBODY ELSE HAS DARED TO
BY: EMILIO AMBASZ
LEFT: EMILIO AMBASZ
Image provided by: Luis Grossman
ABOVE: FUKUOKA BUILDING
Image provided by: Hiromi Watanbe
WHICH OF YOUR WORKS DO
YOU CONSIDER THE MOST
IMPORTANT AND WHY?
One of the most important is
La Casa de Retiro Espiritual
aka the "House in Cordoba."
Contrary to everybody's
expectations and hopes, it was
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built and stands quite proud
and handsome.
Another important project
for me is the one in Fukuoka.
This building is, for me,
very strong evidence that the
prevailing notion "the cities
are for the buildings and the
outskirts are for the parks"
is a mistaken and narrowminded idea only favorable
to commercial architects.
The Fukuoka building
demonstrates, once and for all,
that you can have a building
and the garden.
HOW DO YOU SEE YOUR WORK
IN RELATION TO THE GLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT?
DOES ARCHITECTURE MATTER
HERE?
In my view, architects will
stand far behind in the line
of those sent to Hell for
their environmental sins.
But they will go, inevitably,
if they do not honour their
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