People's Architecture
	BIO  |  QUOTE  |  PRESENTATION     MAP OFFICE The way we operate is that we never draw once we are on the field, but we are doing a lot of photographing and film. Once we are at home we start to draw it from a cognitive memory. So the cartographic craft mediates between the in-between of the whatever condition and the laissez-fair happenings. Most of the time we work around the highway crossing because we find ourselves never far removed from the highway, we are off it for a couple hours and go back on it to move further to where urbanization and the interesting things are happening. MAP Office, lecture Pixel, Engaging the City, New York, March 27, 2006 The controversy now is that a lot of theoreticians come to China and say what is happening is pretty awful, and the Chinese architecture is not up to standard; we should be more engaged into this process. But most of the time I tell them that I agree it is not maybe 100 percent and good, but most of the responsibility for the urban development come from American firms, German firms, they are doing a lot. A German firm is probably doing 100 cities in China; he is responsible for the shit actually. The Chinese are responsible because they employ him, but in terms of design that is the guy to blame. MAP Office, interview with People's Architecture, New York, March 28, 2006