REGISTER - JAUME MAYOL (TEd'A)

In this episode Bushra Mohamed interviews Jaume Mayol who is a partner in TEd’A Arquitectos along with Irene Perez. Their practice, based in Mallorca is a territorial one, seeking to make its architecture from the lessons in the vernacular of the areas they build - both in the tectonics found there, and in the formal arrangements of elements. This sensibility is married to ideas which emerge from the canon, to produce a hybridity of grounded ideas rigorously resolved. A clear sophistication in their understanding of typology results in an acute refinement in how they consider the internal arrangements and formal disposition of their works. Perhaps more simply stated their plans are exquisite - clearly a central fascination of the practice. Here elements are nested, framed or juxtaposed such that misalignments or tensions emerge in how programmes and the building fabric cohere. Structural elements are frequently deployed as characters occupying the spaces that they make, less an ordering device than an empathetic presence. Based in Mallorca this is not the limit of their definition of their territory. They have concentrated on competitions, mainly in Switzerland. Here their territoriality is disposed as a reading of the swiss context. In their peripheral location, their connection to a territory, and their ability to use this not a a limit but as a liberation to engage with other places as a wonderful example of the contemporary moment in European architecture. http://tedaarquitectes.com --------- Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London http://kingstonarchitecture.london Head of Department: Mary Johnson Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy Interviewer: Bushra Mohamed Editor: Andrew Clancy