Reinier de Graaf on 'the Creative Tension Between Thinking and Doing'

摘要

Reinier de Graaf is a partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and co-founder of the practice's research arm, AMO. As an architect, an architectural and urban theorist, a writer and an educator, he regularly works well beyond a narrow definition of architectural practice. As evidenced most recently in his 2017 book Four Walls and a Roof: The complex nature of a simple profession, much of de Graaf's writing is concerned with situating the architect and their work within a broader political and economic context. Alex Brown interviewed de Graaf virtually, via a video call, in late February 2018. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation.