This week, we travel to Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden, to meet Johan Olsson and Andreas Lyckefors, co-founders of Olsson Lyckefors Arkitekter. Together since 2005, they lead a practice of around thirty architects and interior designers — and three dogs.
For them, each project is unique — “a unique period of time, a unique client, a unique place.” What carries through from one work to another is not a style, but a method: “of course we have things that continue from project to project, but that has more to do with methods than the outcome.”
They refuse the idea of a fixed aesthetic. “It would be unrespectful to keep an aesthetics over and above everything we do.”, they say. Architecture, for them, begins with listening: “listening is gold. Talking is silver.”
To embrace change, to adapt, to extract meaning from constraints, this is their way of working. “In the future we will do architecture in a way we don’t know yet. We cannot be stuck in preconceived ways of doing things.”
Guests: Johan Olsson + Andreas Lyckefors (Gothenburg + Stockholm, Sweden) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)
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