interviewed by Esteban de Backer
+ A+R+P+A Journal full interview
Areas of impunity”10 alludes to unregulated spaces that have not yet been subject to conventions. For us, these spaces are the perfect places to try out new forms of occupation, sociability, programming and so on. The slogan also refers to the fact that in the 1980s, architecture was prejudiced against many types of work, and the discipline tended to simply ignore them. But for us, these prejudices were effectively hiding real laboratories for experimentation. For this reason, in our first years working together, Abalos and I entered many competitions associated with engineering firms to build infrastructure—something that closely matched our interests in projects linked to tourism, malls and the repurposing of obsolete industrial spaces.
