JK: The problem is deeper than program. While you may or may not choose to undertake another school project, you will certainly continue to grapple with the nature of certain building elements and spatial relationships. Compare Le Fresnoy to Rouen. Both locate a fundamental architectural problem in the simple act of moving through an envelope. This is the kind of problem I am talking about. I would argue that this is a problem that you have not yet fully resolved. BT: We architects suffer from an unhealthy desire to resolve everything. Take the problem of the corner in classical architecture. There have been thousands of years of experimentation and research, yet still no resolution. An insistence on resolution can be an effective pedagogical tool, but it does not necessarily have to be the ultimate goal. Instead, I wish to push the project far enough that it becomes an inescapable reference point. I would like to see any conversation about a contemporary urban park have to include La Villette, any discussion of small-scale glass construction be incomplete without Groningen.
Folly N7, Parc de la Villette
JK: You must admit that you continue to create situations in which you force yourself to return to a specific problem of entry and work through it in terms of residual space. BT: Perhaps it is an important problem. Or maybe it is my own limitation. JK: A critic has to be careful in these situations. The last thing I want to do is make you conscious of the problem and have you stop doing it.
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middle and left: Axonometrics, Le Fresnoy