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Vladimir Belogolovsky spoke with David Lake, co-founder, with Ted Flato, of Lake|Flato, about Lake’s love for building, learning from other architects, designing buildings as good neighbors, wanting to be artfully practical, and sharing insights about his partner and his mentor, O’Neil Ford. Vladimir Belogolovsky

Michael Maltzan is known for spatially adventurous buildings that, depending on where you start exploring them, are bold and subtle, erect and calm. Whether public or private and across all scales, they all share the impulse to gather an array of forces that ultimately inform and define their... Vladimir Belogolovsky

Founded in Adelaide, Australia, more than 150 years ago, Woods Bagot is one of the largest architectural offices in the world. Specializing in architecture, interiors, and master planning, it is a multi-authorship practice that does not adhere to a signature style. In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s... Vladimir Belogolovsky

Site Specific, Surface/Subsurface, Public Natures, Evolutionary Infrastructures — the titles of the books by and about Weiss/Manfredi, the... Vladimir Belogolovsky

Studio Sangath, the Ahmedabad studio of Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, employs 15 architects from across India. They work on houses, building conversions, and various extensions to existing buildings, and they design art installations, exhibitions, lighting, furniture, and books.... Vladimir Belogolovsky

In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Abin Chaudhuri, the Kolkata-based architect talks about buildings having a soul, never simply following the brief, engaging local crafters, turning every project into a discovery, and believing in the architecture of generosity. Vladimir Belogolovsky

Architect Patrick Keane of Enter Projects Asia shared with me his fascination with basketry and weaving patterns, his commitment to working with local economies and progressive engineers to push for optimizing structures and invent construction details, and starting every day with a blank... Vladimir Belogolovsky

In Vladimir Belogolovsky's interview with Chris Bosse, the Sydney-based co-founder and co-director of LAVA discusses achieving more with less, combining ideas coming from nature based on principles that remain constant and technology that constantly evolves, being innovative, and pursuing a... Vladimir Belogolovsky

While Tom Kundig was designing Chicken Point Cabin in Northern Idaho in 2003, the opportunity arose to explore opening up buildings with moving parts, something that became a recurring and instantly recognizable theme of his buildings. A captivating photo of the front wall of the house lifted... Vladimir Belogolovsky

In this interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky, Stanley Saitowitz discusses coming to America from his native South Africa, studying at Berkeley, getting excited when his architecture succeeds in finding its own logic and starts to form itself, working with the earth and grid, the differences... Vladimir Belogolovsky

In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores, the founders of Barcelona-based Prats & Flores Arquitectes, the couple talked about treating the apartment where they run their practice as a pedagogical tool, learning by drawing over and over again, adapting and... Vladimir Belogolovsky

In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Christoph Ingenhoven, the architect talks about learning from his professors in Aachen and Düsseldorf, his decision not to go into an architectural partnership with his father, and trying to incorporate every progressive and sustainable idea into his... Vladimir Belogolovsky

Recently, London-based architect John Pawson celebrated the release of his latest monograph, Making Life Simpler, authored by Deyan Sudjic and published by Phaidon. In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Pawson, he discusses key references and influences, his design process, what... Vladimir Belogolovsky

In this interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky, architect Michael Rotondi discusses the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), the promise of architecture, using architecture as a medium for learning, and the role of play as a way to grow imagination. Vladimir Belogolovsky

Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ first met at the Singapore office of Kerry Hill Architects, where they worked as designers for five years, predominantly on resorts in Bali, Indonesia. Working well together led them to start their own independent practice in Singapore in 1994: Vladimir Belogolovsky

Curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky recently spoke with Hong Kong-based architect Gary Chang about his background, his firm, EDGE Design Institute, and some of the projects he has created since the completion of the famous Suitcase House at the Commune by the Great Wall two decades ago. Vladimir Belogolovsky