Jost Hering, head of architects of ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co.KG (responsible for the construction of the Altmarkt-Galerie Dresden): Architecture is more than you can see | |
ARE YOU AN ARCHITECT? | Yes. |
WHERE ARE YOU FROM? | I was born in a small place in the Taunus, I grew up in Wiesbaden, I have been studying at the university of - not so typical nowadays - Darmstadt. Neither I have been in America for one year nor I have been at Crete for making experiences in pottery. Spring `76 diploma. Than I changed often my place to stay and I was busy with the architecture of co-operative stores. Since autumn 1989 I have been builidng up the sector of Interior Architecture at ECE. Later my colleagues and me, we took over the management of the sector Architecture. |
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU? | You have luck, if your profession is the
hobby. I like to develope something good of a special budget (it must not be a high one) and in a given time. |
WHAT ABOUT DRESDEN? | To say again, that Dresdenīs town centre is beautiful would mean to carry owls to Athens. And a town handling so selfconfident with the investors is very likable. |
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK? | It is a wide-spread prejudice that architecture is to make some crazy sketches with a soft pencil and the rest is going by itself. Architecture is more than you can see. |
FUTURE? | My wife means, it doesnīt matter how old I will be, every time I will make architecture. |
WHICH QUESTION YOU HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ASKED? | Iīm to much a realist. |
Pictures of the Altmarktgalerie at dresden-architektur.de | Interview: Franziska R. Ostertag |