INTERVIEWS
FERNANDO ROMERO / PART 1 / 03.07.08
08.24.08 / 2008 · FERNANDO ROMERO · INTERVIEWS · LAR · MEXICO · MEXICO CITY
Fernando Romero [1971 -]. Architecture studies at Universidad Iberoamericana [1995]. Worked in OMA from 1997-2000. In 1999 he founded LAR [Laboratory of Architecture] in Mexico City which is involved in a series of domestic, commercial projects and publications, such as “Translation” [2005] and “Hyperborder” [2007]. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including Global Leader of Tomorrow in the World Economic Forum [2002].
The first part of the interview is about the work of Fernando Romero in OMA and how LAR is established in a new context. Also he talks about how his publications stand in a mediatized architectural context.
We first knew about him through “Translation”, a book that showed a series of uneven projects in terms of geometries, scale or materials. With “experimentation in architecture” as a mantra, it’s interesting, in the short life time of LAR, the amount of projects that were realized.
That same mantra is the one that, in unstable contexts as Latin America, generates dubious results in these architectural experimentations. Maybe it’s the wide of the concept “laboratory”, because we can detect diverse lines of work [geo-political studies in the book “Hyperborder”, commercial mega-projects till formal experimentations in hosing]. This reflects the ambition of LAR or its economic capacity? Maybe both and more?
As we said before, it is a young practice and we are waiting for the results of their last experiments.
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