ABOUT THE FOBE HOUSE
Inspirations:
I have visited Morocco on many occasions over the years and the country immediately bewitched me. The three Moroccan projects I´ve worked on to date are certainly fed, to varying degrees, by all the images and impressions I´ve accumulated during my stays there.
The work of the principal architects, painters, sculptors, conceptual artists or filmmakers of all periods and all schools have had varying influences on my work.
A detail of a Giorgio de Chirico painting, stumbling upon the Fez dye baths one early morning, a tracking shot in an Orson Welles´ film, discovering the Jantar Mantar site in Jaipur might all be conscious or unconscious sources of inspiration for me. All of the impressions we carry around with us - some of them for a very long time - eventually slip into our work. It's a very mysterious process. It´s very difficult for me to pinpoint my precise architectural or artistic influences, where this project is concerned. So I'm always surprised when a journalist makes those very astute connections between my work and the work of one of those artists.
Although, according to Hegel, architecture should be considered the first among the arts, my intervention is narrative - a more cumulative and pragmatic process than a conceptual one.