Interview with Jonathan A Gibb

All day, every day looking and appreciating other design, but most importantly a desire to create, to make more accessible the everyday, and re imagining from differing angles a designs possibilities to come up with something that both satisfies at a cerebral and practical level.

It was more it hit me. The feeling that I could create was overwhelming, the freedom to do so within constraints gives such strength to the latent possibility of an imagined or real world project.

The love of a well designed house, to big ideas from a commercial building to a master planned design, and back to the smallest detail... sound greedy but everything between.

Find passion in what you do. It’s purely personal and must come from within. Once you have this you can collaborate with other designers or professionals to achieve a vision.

It is the vision. Making real the unreal and pulling from the air almost magically ideas to solve a problem.

Can be on so many levels. From practicality, to been your favourite colour... it is and always will be the initial integration to the human condition, look, feel, action and ease of use.

Design often becomes background when it is part of life, a bread cutter or lemon squeezer, that you have and don’t necessarily think on as it is part of a daily ritual. Seeing if course an object or a architecture for the first time and feeling and understanding its use, it’s power to transform thought.

Scale aside it’s the joy from a project. A house, a church to an office building to warehouse to urban scaled master plans...

A reactivation of everyday, bridges and what space above they have for interconnected architecture... stay tuned...

Desire, feeling joy, anger, passion to a design. Making it breath by envying emotion to each fold, corner, choice of material and the way it casts shadow...

Always the omnipresent Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, the measured steps of Herzog & de Meuron, and the spirit of design by Steven Holl, and the metaphysical instinct of John Hejduk.

The recent project by Herzog & de Meuron for the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall.

The pure geometry and sacred aspect of The Box Chapel, is a touchstone to the feel of what it is to create an object.

Put yourself forward to be seen, heard, and for your work to stand next to others.

Most likely a gardener, of course tilling the soul would still have a desire of design from the smallest drop of soul to hedge placement.

Family and teachers. Those too that I have studied regarding their rise, passion and projects.

Just the simple joy that creates passion for a design, idea.

Pubically, in competitions and promotion... let yourself be heard.

Presently many projects but also re invigorating the desire and joy of drawing through many charcoal drawings...

To create usable projects, leave a mark on the world for others to follow, use.

Thoughtful design can help many aspects of life, and act to foster understanding, and bring people together.

A project that brings together our ancient and modern society together. A project which spans 2000 years.

From the simplest of things, a single line on paper...

Assists but does not hijack the design.