REGISTER - ELIZABETH HATZ

Register - Architecture & Landscape

In this episode we are joined by Prof Elizabeth Hatz, of the KTH in Stockholm and SAUL in Limerick. Her early built projects enjoy a lightness of touch, grounded in the deep Swedish culture of architecture and yet playful and ambiguously figurative. Her teaching gained attention for the deep connection she makes between drawing and thinking, and it is this territory she has worked in in recent years. A wide range of practitioners value her voice in drawing out the latent qualities of drawings, and articualting their broader value to the discipline. Writing in the recent Quart Verlag book of Markli's drawings she writes "The drawing for the architect is where everything is open, until it is built... ...architecture undergoes continuing change and alteration through its lifetime, it is not finished when it is built; it merely starts its own life. Therefore we could also reconnect the built to the realm of the sketch, the essay and the fragment. And stand in front of it, both with the mark of will and the promising openness of some incertitude" In this conversation she speaks of this act of looking, of being comfortable with doubt in process. Above all else she talks eloquently about the necessary time in both learning and making architecture. Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston University. fada.kingston.ac.uk/al/ Head of Department: Eleanor Suess Register Editor: Timothy Smith Interviewer: Andrew Clancy Audio: Justin Howard