Giovanni Piovene and Ambra Fabi in Conversation with James Brillon

James Brillon, a third-year M.Arch student, speaks with European architects Giovanni Piovene and Ambra Fabi of PioveneFabi in advance of their lecture at the school on March 19, 2018. They discuss how objects play into architecture and how they attempt to use local materials in their projects to see cities in different ways. They also touch on how teaching has shaped not only the creation of their practice but also how they now design. “The reason we started this office is because we were each really thinking about process in a completely different way… almost opposite from one another.” –Giovanni Piovene More information on PioveneFabi at http://www.piovenefabi.it More information on their lecture at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/818-piovenefabi