WORKING TOGETHER

摘要

Klaus Bode likes colour. Not on himself, he is strictly dark and muted today. It is in his drawings that the colour hits you. Sitting at his desk he shows me numerous facades at the Toulouse School of Economics, each of which is delineated by colour to offer Grafton Architects different configurations of shading. 'We convert numbers to colours,' says Bode. It is part of understanding how architects work. It starts even before the first meeting with getting to know their work. 'I like to read up and understand a firm's architecture,' says Bode. Then there is figuring out what a project is trying to do and the specific way that practices work, from thinking to delivering drawings. He has had plenty of practice, his