2024-10-29
6 分钟Every week we welcome one of the jury chairs of the Holcim Foundation Awards – the world’s premier competition for sustainable design – to hear their views on creating uplifting places, fostering a healthy planet and building thriving communities. In episode four we meet Peruvian architect and co-founder of Barclay & Crousse, Sandra Barclay. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to the fourth in a special series of tall stories brought to you by the Hulsam Foundation Awards, the world's premier competition for sustainable design, highlighting projects that contribute to the transformation of the building sector.
I'm your host, Andrew Tucker.
In each episode, we welcome one of the jury chairs to explore their views on creating uplifting places, fostering a healthy planet, developing viable economics and building thriving communities.
We ask them how their careers began, the pillars of their practice and what their hopes are for the future of the industry.
This week we speak with the Peruvian architect and co founder of Barclay and Kraus, Sandra Barclay.
My father is an architect, so I think everything starts there as an admiration for him.
I think then when I started studying architecture, I had the really great teachers here in Peru.
I have Juenal Baraco and I admire his work.
And then when I went to Paris to study, I was studying with Enrique Sirianni.
I was understanding how natural light, space are very important and can really define a space and transform lives.
He was working in many social housing projects and I was really very interested in that capacity of architecture to transform lives, no matter the size of the space is.
Then I had a first experience where I worked in the team leaded by Alvaro Sisa for a master plan in Montreuil in the outskirts of Paris.
And his first move in the project was listening attentively to that place.
Understanding the place was like fundamental.
Then after the studies, we had the opportunity to work in our first project in the restructure for Malraux Museum in Le Havre.
In this project, Guy Lagnaud, that was the original building architect, teach us about how important it is to listen attentively to the original ideas of the building, like work for the building, for getting our own personal ambitions.
Listening to the pre existences, the physical ones that are of course topography, territory, the built context and that also intangible existences, the culture, the traditions, the memory, the climate, to listen to also to the people, the way they live and the history, the memory, the traditions.
I think for me it's very important to listen and understanding the conditions of the place where we are going to work.
I think we have to be very careful about what we build because it will leave a trace that will last.
And in developing countries it's very important because we have still a lot to build.