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“If you want to change something, you must know the law, you must try to show the people their rights. It’s immensely important that to make architecture is to make a political question. Because if we only make a building with bricks – it’s false. How you are changing the neighborhood, the economy… you must have the responsibility to think about your projects, and the social part.” —Santiago Cirugeda
Basilea is this year’s Messeplatz project during Art Basel in Basel. Creative Time was enlisted to curate the participatory project with artists Lara Almarcegui and Isabel Lewis, and the architecture collective Recetas Urbanas (“Urban Recipes”), led by “rebel” architect Santiago Cirugeda. In this video, Cirugeda talks with Design Indaba about why he is drawn to public projects, and why it is sometimes necessary to break the law.
