90. Recollecting the past and present with Franz Ziegler

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

“...This was a very important project for me...doing nothing - analyzing the situation and seriously looking at the spaces and understanding it...”

Franz Ziegler

This week, we sit down with Architect, Urban Planner, and long-time friend Franz Ziegler to exchange thoughts on Holland and global architecture, drawing with the hand, and to reminisce on mutual experiences in India.

Timestamp Outline 

1:06    Introduction to Franz Ziegler

5:30    Context and Modernity conference 1990 at TU Delft

6:45    Alexander Tzonis (Professor at TU Delft) and Critical Regionalism

7:00    B.V. Doshi

9:15    Team 10

9:55    “The idea of a habitat which has this high degree of urban, spatial, culture complexity as different from the patterns and ideals of modernism, must have been a significant reference point for that sort of structuralist viewpoint.”    VP

12:05    “...This was a very important project for me...doing nothing - analyzing the situation and seriously looking at the spaces and understanding it...”    FZ

15:00    “[even in the time of Zoom] I still cherish doing hand drawings and having [intense] discussions…this magic of hand-made stuff. It’s still there and it still works!”    FZ

15:57    Fritz Palmbloom

19:18    tracing, drawing, becomes an automatic skill after much intentional practice

20:00    Riyaz practice

25:30    Chandigarh, THE modernist city

34:30    CEPT Exhibition

36:00    What is the emerging urban design of Holland?

37:00    Rem Koolhaas and the Superdutch

42:40    Discussion of sustainability, biodiversity, heritage, and urban greens