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Cosmin Caciuc: Mr. Sergison, the first questions are connected with your biography. You graduated from the Architectural Association in 1989, one of the most prestigious schools of architecture in the world. How was the educational and professional atmosphere at that time in the AA?

What could I tell you after 10 years of work at Arhitectura? The start was truly from zero, a certain type of zero since we had the experience of Virtualia and Octogon reviews. That kind of zero in ’99 was a complete lack of funding or means, but we had ourselves to invest and to spend.

The Whitney Museum – a model for contemporary minimalist architecture – successfully embodies the idea of integrating arts, design, architecture, and the building in a unique conceptual gesture.

Friday Y and I go to see Andy Warhol at the Dalles Hall. “Sure, come in, it’s on the first floor, but the boy at the cafeteria is out and he’s the one with the keys. But I can switch on the lights so you can get a glimpse.

Thirty years after Luigi Snozzi’s interventions in Monte Carasso, a small municipality in Ticino, Switzerland, these continue to testify to the relevance of his compromise-free, contextual and sustainable critical regionalism.

PZP Arhitectura managed to appropriate a standard program in order to create a building with urban potential whose image visibly clashes with the uniformity of the immediate context.

While chatting recently with a client, he asked me how I saw myself as a professional, if I thought I was an engineer or an artist. I must admit I have not wondered about the genus proximus for a long time. An architect is an architect. He does things that are different from the one and the other at the same time.