‘You leave the pages open near where you are drawing and it is very inspiring’: Flores & Prats’ AR Bookshelf
- 6 July 2020
- London EMAP Publishing Limited 2020
The AR Bookshelf is a podcast by The Architectural Review. The idea is very simple: we ask each guest to put books on an imaginary bookshelf and tell us their story.
Flores & Prats take the AR around their bookshelf, from Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier to TS Eliot and Georges Perec. On the way, we discuss the death of drawing, books that hold memory, and bringing buildings back to life. Based in Barcelona and formed in 1998, the pair are best known for Sala Beckett, a theatre carefully choreographed within the shell of an old co-operative social club. Time and slowness is something of a theme their work: the Casal Balaguer house museum in Palma de Mallorca designed with Duch-Pizà Arquitectes took 20 years to come to fruition. Most recently, the pair won the competition with Ouest Architecture to reimagine the Ancien Théâtre des Variétés in Brussels. They are no strangers to bookmaking either, editing and writing publications about John Hejduk, the spaces of Dutch painting, and Pompeii as well as their own work.